The built-in property list has several mistakes.
http://phing.info/docs/guide/current/chapters/appendixes/AppendixA-FactSheet.html#BuiltInProperties
These supposedly properties aren't set:
phing.buildfile (phing.file is set instead), phing.id, project.name (phing.project.name is set instead), project.description
These properties aren't mentioned in the list:
env.???, host.os, os.name (seems to be the same as host.os), phing.home (although it has no value on a PEAR install)
These properties have wrong descriptions:
host.arch, host.machine, host.name
And while we're at it, for a good alphabetical listing, the php properties should be after the phing properties and "project.name" should be the last project property of the list. :P