This is a hint for using batch files. I'm using Linux (Fedora 7), but I'm sure that this technique can be adapted for other operating systems. My home directory is /home/alan. I've created /home/alan/bin. ("bin" is a name that's used in various places as a name for directories that hold binary (executable) files. I've added /home/alan/bin to my path in my .bash_profile file, so that executable files in this directory can be found by keying in the file name from anywhere in /home/alan. I have two Akelos related files in here. If you use them, they must be customized to reflect where your stuff is.

The first file is called "akelos_upgrade":

svn co http://svn.akelos.org/trunk/ ~/develop/Software/akelos
chmod -R g+w ~/develop/Software/akelos
ln -s  ~/develop/Software/akelos/public ~/www/html/akelos

/home/alan/develop/Software/akelos, in the first line, is where I store akelos.
/home/alan/www/html, in the second line is the document root of a virtual server.

Notes: "~/" is shorthand for one's home directory, in my case "/home/alan". The link statement refers to akelos/public. In another forum, I saw the instruction to leave the "public" off and just link to "akelos". It appears to make no difference. I got the "Welcome Aboard" with both links.

The second file is php_project.php:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
exec('develop/Software/akelos/script/setup -d ~/develop/php/'.$argv[1].' -p ~/www/html/'.$argv[1]);
exec('chmod -R g+w ~/develop/php/'.$argv[1]);
?>

This could have been written as a shell script, but I'm lazy. I already know how to pass arguments to a php script. Of course, it has the same directories as the first script.