I am looking at the build system from the ease-of-use perspective. If you only need to checkout the CVS module and can directly run the PHP script, it is much easier then installing cygwin, getting familiar with the command line, and put all the tools on the appropriate paths... Since livedocs will hopefully make most of the current make targets obsolote, the build system will be much smaller, and easier to port to another environment (eg. Phing).
If you don't have cygwin, how will you checkout the CVS module?? Maybe we could use the script I made that implements the CVS protocol in PHP. :)
Maybe... But there is a standalone cvs.exe for windows, which is a perfect CVS client running without cygwin (from the MS command line). Installing it is also a matter of copying it to the path...
Goba
