Request: HHVM

[LimeBlast]

Do you think you can bake some support for HHVM into the box?

I'm not sure that it is a suitable alternative to PHP for anything accessed via the web interface/apache - but I've heard that it is really fast for running CLI stuff.

It could be good to have as an alternative to the php command via the CLI, allowing for commands to be run via hhvm artisan migrate (or whatever)

Just a thought :)

[bryannielsen]

Yea I think this is a great idea, I'll try to set some time aside to get this added and tested with the box :-)

[LimeBlast]

Cool, thank you. I think it also works well with things like composer update, etc..

[andheiberg]

Is this in the works, or should I take a stab at it?

I think it should be as easy as installing hhvm with apt

[andheiberg]

I ended up ripping out most of this repos stuff, so I won't bother to setup a new project and commit this, but hhvm can easily be setup on ubuntu like this.

class hhvm {

  if(!defined(Package['apt'])) {
    package { 'apt':
      ensure => present,
    }
  }

  include apt

  apt::key { 'hhvm':
    key_source => 'http://dl.hhvm.com/conf/hhvm.gpg.key',
  }

  apt::source { 'hhvm':
    location    => 'http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu',
    release     => 'precise',
    repos       => 'main',
    include_src => false,
  }

  package { 'hhvm':
    ensure => 'present',
    require  => Exec['apt_update'],
  }

}