So we are on making the phpdoc workers life easier... One of the biggest problems is for starters, that many tools are needed. There has been some discussion on dropping the required unix tools, and base the whole build system on PHP. That would mean that Windows people would not need to have cygwin, which is a huge step forward.
I have only found http://phing.tigris.org/ so far, which is a PHP based ready-to-use build system. It could do the tasks we require, *but* it needs PHP 5 to run, so it might not be the best idea to employ.
The question is up, whether:
- we should use our own PHP based build scripts (rewrite configure.in in PHP)
- we should use some "packaged" build system (Phing or a better / more portable one)
- we should not drop the unix tools, let windows guys sweat the first time they join the team
Goba
