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Xinc - Continuous Integration
by Chris Cornutt June 06, 2007 @ 15:36:06

The Xinc (Xinc Is Not CruiseControl) group has released an announcement about reaching the beta mark in the development live of thier tool, Xinc.

Xinc is an open source PHP 5 continuous integration tool designed to integrate with Subversion, Phing and PHPUnit.

There is a growing awareness of continuous integration in the PHP world and we feel that to have to rely on Java to provide this functionality (i.e. CruiseControl) sucks big time. So we are building the PHP 5 alternative.

Their system seems clean and lets you not only set up the push via a running background process but can pull it from Subversion and run any unit tests (via PHPUnit) you might have before pushing the project out.

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Re: Slava
by Gavin Foster - 06.07.2007 @ 06:25:19
CruiseControl is the only continuous integration tool used by the PHP developers I am aware of (including the Phing project), and it is the functionality and open source aspect of CruiseControl that Xinc was initially inspired by.

The 're-inventing the wheel' comment just does not apply. Comparisons can only be made to other PHP 5 continuous integration tools, of which none are actively being developed with a long-term commitment, as far as I am aware.

Was Parabuild the first continuous integration tool?
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Re-inventing the wheel
by Gavin Foster - 06.07.2007 @ 00:35:42
Hi Slava,

We have done our homework. Point me to a free PHP 5 continuous integration tool that is both well written and is an active project with a long-term commitment.

Parabuild looks like a great tool but does not look like it's either written in PHP 5 or free.

Xinc is intended to complete the triumvirate of PHP 5 tools needed for continuous integration: Xinc, Phing and PHPUnit.
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Xinc - Continuous Integration
by Slava Imeshev - 06.06.2007 @ 22:46:06
"There is a growing awareness of continuous integration in the PHP world and we feel that to have to rely on Java to provide this functionality (i.e. CruiseControl) sucks big time..."

CruiseControl is not the only continuous integration server around. There is a host of production-grade continuous integration systems (10?) that kick @ss, including our Parabuild.

" ... So we are building the PHP 5 alternative."

Isn't not doing your homework the main cause of wheel-reinventing? :-)

Regards,

Slava Imeshev
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