I'm doing PHP development and I'm thinking of using one of these. I have both PHP and Java installed on my machine. In theory I could use any of the two.
What are the compelling arguments to pick Phing over Ant?
The greatest argument I have in favor of Phing is that it's fully developed in PHP ; which means, at least :
- You can debug it / submit patches if you want
- You can develop tasks in PHP
- including tasks which are specific to your project
- that can use stuff from your project (I've written a couple of tasks that use functions of Drupal, in a drupal-based project)
- And, if you are working on a PHP project, your team probably knows PHP well -- while they might not know Java
- No need to install Java on your servers
The main argument (for me) for using Phing when doing PHP development is
- staying inside the PHP Ecosystem.
- When using Phing on shared hosts, you can be sure it works when PHP works.
- And you can easily extend Phing with your own task in PHP.
- And since it's a PHP tool you will sometimes find it in other applications as well.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2502971/what-can-phing-do-that-ant-cant