Hi Everyone,
Laurel and I are working on the custom Infusion build experience, and we've 
started to make some headway.
Now that Michelle has built the infrastructure for customized builds, we've 
started to this about how the experience should play out, and how the 
backend/frontend should communicate to generate a build. Some examples of this 
kind of functionality can be found at jQuery UI's download 
page<http://jqueryui.com/download> and Mootools' download 
page<http://mootools.net/core>.  One tricky part we're finding is how to 
process the commands we need to generate a build with Ant.

The current workflow is looking like this:

1.       PHP parses the build.properties and the JSON dependencies files to 
fetch and generate a list of modules and their dependencies

2.       Form will POST to the server (running php) a list of selected modules

3.       Form processor will then deduce the exclusion list from the inclusion 
list

4.       If some dependencies are found to be in the exclusion list, we POST 
back a warning on the form about each missing dependency,  asking the user to 
confirm their desire not to include them

5.       Upon confirmation, we (remember these settings ? and) communication 
will be POSTed back to the server where (Ant? Phing? Something else?) will 
process the data and return a (file? Path to a file?)

(Please note we're hoping to create an Infusion component to cover some of this 
workflow, so the experience becomes even smoother).

As you can see, there are gaps to fill here. Any ideas and feedback to this 
process will be very much appreciated! Particularly, how PHP could fire a shell 
script or execute a command line instruction.

Jacob
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