Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] Re: New PHP SDK for Windows

On 11/16/2016 5:43 PM, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> Hi Anatol!
>
> On 31.10.2016 at 18:01, Anatol Belski wrote:
>
>> I'm working on the new Windows PHP SDK. So far, some usable alpha state is
>> reached. It is compatible with PHP-7.0 and the current SDK and contains
>> additional new features. The essential changes in the new SDK are
>>
>> - starter scripts included, making the environment setup easier
>> - updated tools, including bison 3.0.2
>> - more tools including sed, awk and others based on MSYS2
>> - new tool for dependency update automation
>>
>> The current state is reachable under
>>
>> https://github.com/OSTC/php-sdk-binary-tools/tree/new_binary_tools
>>
>> I would like to call everyone interested to please check and provide
>> feedback and PRs. Other useful tools can be invented on the base of the new
>> SDK. Production usage is not yet recommended, but the more feedback is there
>> - the closer it'll be. The plan is to replace the current PHP SDK with the
>> new one in foreseable future for PHP 7 builds, maybe also to backport for
>> the 5.x tree. This also correlates with the upcoming AppVeyor integration,
>> and both tasks in general are directed to improve the QA and experience
>> situation when building PHP on Windows.
>>
>> Please check more on the github README page. If some tool is missing or is
>> worth it to be implemented, please create a ticket. A new step-by-step-build
>> wiki page will also need to be created, once the new SDK was considered
>> stable. I would also ask to migrate the linked repository to git.php.net,
>> meanwhile the PR can be accepted on the OSTC repository page.
> I still hadn't had the time to have a closer look at the new SDK, but
> finally managed to at least quickly check it out – it looks very
> promising.  Thanks for the good work again, Anatol!
>