A few days ago in #mediawiki ^demon made a comment about php 5.4 having a
built-in webserver.
After a little bit of looking at that we found that when MediaWiki was
combined with a standalone copy of 5.4 and the webserver and sqlite
support built-in it was possible to startup a quick and easy development
instance of MediaWiki with nothing but the MW code and an isolated copy of
php. (ie: no real extra dependencies besides what you'd expect on a
unix-like OS setup to be able to compile something)
I threw together some bash scripts that will download the latest php 5.4,
configure and install it into maintenance/dev/php/, install an sqlite
based install of MediaWiki, and startup php's built in development
webserver on localhost.
Anyone have a problem with these bash scripts being committed to
/trunk/phase3/maintenance/dev/ for anyone checking out MW to use?
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://daniel.friesen.name]