Christian Grobmeier wrote:
- is not XML based (Derick will appreciate that :P)
probably the only one ;-)
Not sure if this is a joke, but xml simply has to die (TM).
I will try to give Pake a try as soon as possible. But if one of you
already has experience with
Phing or Pake I would be happy to get your feedback about these tools :)
I have no experience and no preference with Pake and Phing, but I
could understand Phing very quickly (no surprise, as a ant user) and
had some trouble to get into pake. I am still unsure on some points
and could not use it straight away. You'll probably need to make a
good documentation on Pake otherwise I can imagine that users who want
to join the project might have some trouble.
Not a "good doc" by any stretch, but to hit the ground running:
<?php
pake_desc( 'docs for the next registered task' );
pake_task( 'init-me' ); // registers task "init-me"
// another task
pake_desc( 'Builds the extension' );
// registers task build-me, depending on init-me.
// dependencies are not managed as make would do (ie. looking at file
timestamps). init-me is always run 1st when build-me is executed
pake_task( 'build-me', 'init-me' );
// function invoked when executing task 'init-me'
// $args and $opts come from the parameters passed via cli, similar to what a
-Dthis.property=that would do in ant.
// The complete syntax is:
// php pake.php [generic-pake-options] task [specific-options] [arguments]
// so that eg running php pake.php init-me --skip-this --this=that andmore
// would results in $opts = array( 'skip-this' => true, 'this' => 'that' )
and $opts = array( 'andmore' )
function run_init_me($task, $args=array(), $opts=array()){ echo 'hello'; }
function run_build_me($task, $args=array(), $opts=array()){ echo 'world'; }
?>
I don't see a benefit compared to the actual makefile in readability.
If you say, Pake is easier - its just in the eye of the observer.
<this is the auto flagellation part>
I plead guilty for imposing Ant, the reason is that I have been using
it for a couple of years already and I thought it would solve problems we got
in the
Makefile. But I was wrong.
<this was the auto flagellation part>
Naaa, Ant is not such bad! Trying it out was a logical consequence. It
just didn't fit
