promotion of php-air

[jurgenvinju]

@mahills; I'd like to discuss the promotion of php-air to usethesource here.

• link: https://github.com/cwi-swat/php-analysis
• What is the status of the project?
• Do you see a future for it in the coming 5 years?
• Should I have asked another question?

I have a very positive view on it. It seems an extensive and well-designed project with a lot of value for people who want to analyze PHP code using Rascal.

Votes

• @mahills
• @PaulKlint
• @jurgenvinju
• @DavyLandman
• @tvdstorm

[mahills]

I would definitely like to do this. I've been very busy with my new role (I'm now director of our graduate programs), but am still very interested in moving this forward, and am again getting some more student interest in this. I should be ramping up involvement in a couple of weeks when the semester ends. So, to answer your questions: the status is that I have been tinkering where I have time, but it hasn't been very active; I do see a future, and it should actually become more active soon; along with that, we have some more features we want to add and some restructuring to make it easier to analyze any systems, plus PHP is still widely used; and I can't think of any other questions right now.

[jurgenvinju]

Hi @mahills ; we've been moving some libraries to usethesource, see "flybytes" and "salix" and fixing the support for using those libraries on the commandline and in Eclipse and VScode. The trick was to let Rascal re-use Maven functionality to install and link libraries and third-party dependencies. Seems to work out pretty well. Perhaps you have some time in August or September to make this happen for PHP air as well?