Hello Aura People,
I have two projects designed after your minimalist zero-dependency
mindset.
My annotation engine:
http://code.google.com/p/php-annotations/
This provides php-doc style annotation support. The framework itself
is complete, but the library of standard annotations is incomplete and
has not received any significant attention since I've been working in
C#.
My other older project is a template-engine:
http://code.google.com/p/php-outline/
This is extremely small and benchmarked as one of the fastest template
engines for PHP - since I wrote this, I have become somewhat
disinterested in templating in general. I thought it was worth a
mention though, since comparable engines (like Smarty) are huge,
overly complicated and slow.
I don't know if I think template engines are necessary or make sense
anymore.
But I was wondering if you might be willing to consider adopting my
annotation engine. I worked on this for over a year, and it is (in my
own perhaps not-so-humble opinion) the most complete and functional
annotation engine for PHP - it's a shame for it to sit on a shelf,
unused. Someone could do great things with this, I think. But not me -
or at least not for another year or two, as I am stuck working on a
big project in C#.
I miss my PHP - but I will be back, and hope to see Aura flourish...
it's a noble idea! :-)
- Rasmus