Re: aeb/aet vs. scripting languages

Aryeh Friedman <[email protected]> writes:

> Some of our jobs are PHP and python and after some experimentation we
> have found that the aeb/aed/aet cycle is very well suited for compiled
> langs but not so much for scripted ones because (for example in PHP)
> there is no actual building that needs to be performed... I know and
> support the idea of build_command="exit 0"; but I would want to find
> some way of get the same kind of output that a compiler gives on
> errors... ideas?

PHP has a --syntax-check option, for javascript you may try jslint and
probably something exists also for python.

For tests you may want to define test_command as follow:

    test_command = "${project_specific PYTHON} ${filename} ${arch} ${version}";

Ciao    
-- 
Walter Franzini
http://aegis.stepbuild.org/

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