Interesting links

February 19, 2013 by · Leave a Comment 

Some interesting links I’ve stumbled on the past few weeks, in no particular order:

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Phing development update

February 17, 2013 by · Leave a Comment 

The last Phing development update was almost a year ago, so I guess it’s about time for a discussion of what’s new in Phing world.

2.5.0 and Semantic Versioning

The most important news in this update is the brand new 2.5.0 release (pushed out yesterday). We bumped the minor version number because we now (try to) follow the Semantic Versioning spec, and this release introduces new functionality. Our changed roadmap reflects this as well.

This version closes the following issues:

#979 svncommit: invalid switch ignoreexternals
#977 phpunit Task doesn’t support @codeCoverageIgnore[...] comments
#972 SvnCopyTask: remove “force” from documentation
#971 TokenSource does not work
#969 PHPUnit task does not report diffs for failed assertions
#968 Proper handling of STDOUT and STDERR
#963 XSLT task fails with fatal error on PHP 5.4
#962 DbDeploy: infinite loop in case if directory not found
#961 DbDeploy: checkall output isn’t informative
#960 Documentation of Dbdeploy task
#959 Bug in SvnListTask Version 2.4.14
#958 Property wrapped in if/then structure is not substituted by it’s value
#954 Paths becoming part of S3 file names on Windows
#953 Add PHP extension check to Available Task
#952 Properly document how to load environment variables as properties
#951 S3Put throws “Source is not set” exception
#949 SymfonyConsoleTask improvements: checkreturn and output of command

 

Other goodies

The past few months Phing has seen a few interesting additions:

  • Composer packager support (we’re listed on Packagist as well)
  • phploc task
  • apply task
  • improved phpdoc(2) support
  • lots of documentation, bug and other fixes

GitHub

The move to GitHub in early 2012 has been very successful in speeding up Phing’s development. We can definitely still use your help though, so fork our project and submit a pull request. Thanks!

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A new year…

February 16, 2013 by · Leave a Comment 

Remember how I promised to blog more?

I promise I’ll improve this year ;-) Meanwhile, visit this brilliant site.

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Phing development update 01/04/2012

April 1, 2012 by · 1 Comment 

Roughly a month ago I posted the first in, what should become, a series of development updates concerning Phing. This second blog post details the most important updates during the past four weeks as Phing is moving steadily towards another release (2.4.10 is due out next week).

User Guide starts move to DocBook format

The biggest commit last month was without a doubt the merge of Johan Persson’s docbook5 branch, which adds a DocBook 5 version of the entire Phing User Guide,  accompanied by its own rendering infrastructure. This feature has been on my personal wishlist for a long time, and it’s finally around the corner! The new docs will probably not make it into 2.4.10, but, at some point in the coming weeks, the ‘live’ user guide (on the Phing website) will be switched to the new format. The 2.4.11 packages will also contain the new docs.

Liquibase docs

After succesfully merging the Liquibase tasks last month, Stephan Hochdörfer completed the addition by submitting a pull request containing the necessary documentation!

PhpDocumentor

You’ve probably heard about this, the popular documentation tools phpDocumentor and DocBlox have merged! Phing supports the new phpDocumentor releases by adding a phpdoc2 task.

PHP 5.4 compatibility

Phing itself seems to work fine with the recently released PHP 5.4, however, the unit tests experienced some problems – these have been corrected to make sure the (unstable) snapshot builds are pushed out regularly.

PHAR package

Starting with the upcoming 2.4.10 release, each new version of Phing will also be available as a PHAR package. Initially, this will just contain Phing itself (similar to the PEAR package). After that, the package will be expanded with a few popular dependencies (depending on feedback).

Various (bug)fixes, the 2.4.10 release

Last but not least, here’s a list of tickets that have been closed since the last update.

#870 Can’t find ParallelTask.php 6 days
#828 SelectorUtils::matchPath matches **/._* matches dir/file._name 12 days
#844 symlink task – overwrite not working 12 days
#840 Prevent weird bugs: raise warning when a target tag contains no ending tag 12 days
#820 Type selector should treat symlinks to directories as such 2 weeks
#868 Git Clone clones into wrong directory 2 weeks

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My Ideas For March

March 16, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

Last year, Chris Shiflett started the Ideas for March movement, an effort to revitalize the interesting conversations that happen(ed) on blogs. This year, several people are refreshing that effort.

This is my pledge to write (blog) more about what I see and do, the projects that I work on, the tools that I use daily, the people I meet, the events I visit – the things that inspire me. I will be blogging about all things Phing, hopefully post a blog or two about Gearman, SOAP, ZF, security and numerous other subjects that have been stuck in my grey matter, but never managed to make it into a blog post.

Plus, and I’m very excited about this, my good friend Joeri is busy working on a redesign of this site, which will hopefully make all that new content more appealing and easy to read!

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