[PHP-DEV] Could PHP be used to build PHP?

2008-03-20 Thread Richard Quadling
With regard to the CMake SoC proposal ... I may be a little naive here but surely it would be better to use PHP to build PHP? I know that outside of PHP, a LOT of tools which I have no knowledge of (I'm a windows user. I use point and click interfaces to build apps when I used Delphi - no need

Re: [PHP-DEV] Could PHP be used to build PHP?

2008-03-20 Thread Gwynne Raskind
I'd be in favor of this idea because it sounds cool, but it has some crippling drawbacks: - There isn't really a homogenous way to build PHP without OS- specific checks. There's just too much that even the most minimal build needs to know about its host system. - configure.php wouldn't be