Phing, Xinc or phpUnderControl - which one will last?

Question

I am still looking into which one of these tools I should use. When I was poking around I noticed none of them really have any new releases:

Xinc
Version 2.0.1 released 02/05/08
Phing
Version 2.3.3 released 12/07/08
phpUnderControl
Version 0.4.4 released 08/09/08

Should I choose phpUnderControl because it had the latest release and development will probably be continued? I don't want to have to switch in half a year just because some feature that comes with php 5.3 can't be handled by one of them.

I would need PHP Unit, SVN and Codesniffer support.

Provision

maybe when things are stable the projects don't change much – Punjab

Answer 1

At work, we asked ourselves about the same question last year, considering our needs are :

• Something quite easy to set up ; a few command lines are OK, if you just have to copy/paste without thinking too much (goal : someone who doesn't know Linux well must be able to install the software)
• Integration of
  • PHPUnit
  • phpDocumentor
  • PHP_CodeSniffer
  • SVN log + automatically build when things are committed
• Ability to handle some rather big projects
• Something "sexy", with graphs and all that, for our clients to see

We chose phpUnderControl. Couple of arguments that I remember :

• pro : quite active project (there where new versions really often)
• con : JAVA ; means harder for PHP developpers to modify / adapt
• half pro : PHPUnit and phpUnderControl are a bit close (same hosting, if I remember well) ; we considered if was a good sign that the project would live ^^
• pro : easy to set up ; even the first time (we were a couple of guys who tried ; generally no problem)
• pro (subjective) : more sexy than xinc

We are now (more than) a year later, and we don't regret our choice... Let hope we'll still feel the same way in another year or two !

Smalltime

I 2nd everything Pascal said. Also been using phpUC for more than a year, and continue to choose it for new projects. However, I also use phing to do the actual building, and phpUC to handle the reporting. – Antrim

Answer 2

Phing actually looks pretty active ...

http://phing.info/trac/timeline

Quinones

actually thing is pretty simple and complete. You can extend it yourself if you want more stuff. – Goforth

phing is not a CI, it is a automation tool. – Tarlatan

Answer 3

Xinc looks to be a more active than phpUnderControl, which hasn't released for almost a year. But as with everything in life, the future is uncertain, what appears to be stable and active today, may not be so tomorrow.

Vardar

Now I'm using xinc too but since there is no step by step tutorial it's a pain to get started... – Provision