At TriMM I am working on an eLearning environment consisting of a core engine and some 500 swfs (and growing). Some of these locations are very simple, like an image with hotspots and some are more complex such as an emailclient. The engine is refactored now and then, and extended, in addition the requests for some of the locations themselves might change.
All the work is done by different people in different roles, and some location versions might or might not be compatible with certain version of the core engine.

Why am I telling you this? Because I switched from Flash to PHP because of this? No way.

But I do have to write a script to automate the release process, which will collect the latest versions of all location swf’s that go with a certain core engine version. I thought about using Ruby or Python for that, but since TriMM does a lot of Java, PHP and Flash, I decided it had to be one of those 3.

My first choice was PHP since (more…)