The mission of php-build is to reduce my workflow of testing new PHP versions to one command I can run. php-build also provides a opinionated default configurat

The mission of php-build is to reduce my workflow of testing new PHP versions to one command I can run. php-build also provides a opinionated default configuration, which you can build on and extend. Without php-build I have to do this when I want to test, for example PHP 5.4.0RC1: 1. Find a tarball 2. Extract Tarball 3. Configure it 3a. If I already have a script to configure this version go to 4. 3b. Pick configure options (PHP has a sh*tload of them) 3c. See if it works 4. make && make install 5. install Pyrus 6. install XDebug 7. install PHPUnit So with php-build (and php-build-plugin-phpunit): 1. php-build -i development 5.4.0rc1 ~/.phpenv/versions/5.4.0rc1 2. ? 3. Profit