您可以将 ANT 构建文件用作 Phing 构建文件吗？

Question

I just started playing around with Phing build scripts (built with PHP). From what I have read is that Phing is based on Apache Ant (built with Java).

Both use XML build files and have similar syntax, so I am asking someone with experience, if I find an Ant build file on Github or elsewhere, can it be used in a Phing script without changing the syntax of it any? Like a drop-in XML file that would work with Ant or Phing? Or are there differences?

Answer 1

There are some slight differences. I would recommend taking the ant build file, and for each target, look up the target name in the phing documentation to make sure it's the same or not. I can't remember off the top of my head, but you can't just drop it in. There are also some phing only things you can do that are php related, like a phpdoc target, etc.

Answer 2

I were recently facing the same issue and I found some diff :

• antcall would be phingcall
• <if> tag only appear to be working on PHING (or with Ant-contribs library added)
• <fixcrlf> tag only appear to be working on ANT

Maybe there are some others.

SOLUTION

The best solution for me was to rewrite missing tasks using adhocTask . And if it is possible, based on an existing PhingTask.

For example to make <antcall> to work, I simply extends PhingCallTask like this :

<adhoc-task name="antcall"><![CDATA[
  class AntCall extends PhingCallTask {}
]]></adhoc-task>