I would ask myself if OSX controlled enough of the server market to justify the cost of producing CF for that OS. It would be cool, but is it worth the effort? :)
-----Original Message----- From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:58 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: [SOT] CF on OS X... just venting Does anyone know of a port of CF to Mac OS X? I have been fooling around with using OS X as a development and testing environment for the web. OS X comes standard with the following already installed: BSD Unix (Underlying operating system for OS X) Apache Web Server Perl php * * php has an interesting capability to create an executable program without use of the web API... so you could create a stand-alone desktop app, with SQL databases and put it in a kiosk or distribute it on a CD,.. this is a feature that some have requested in CF Java WDDX and XML various mail servers CLI with various shells OSA Scripting (AppleScript) The OSA Scripting and the CLI can execute scripts which control any of the OS programs (including eachother, e.g. AppleScript can invoke a CLI script which, in turn, can invoke an AppleScript... or a php, Perl, or Java program...yadda, yadda yadda). So, from a web page or an email, you can invoke any of the above to serve a web page or do something more esoteric: Reset/update the system clock Start/schedule a Cron job Backup the system or a database Call someone on their pager Reboot a server In addition to the standard programs/languages you can easily install things such as: JSP Python, et. al. MySql PostgreSQL ImageMagic XWindows Gimp or any other open-source 'Nix programs/languages Only one thing (really important to me) is missing... my development language of choice... ColdFusion I don't understand why MM has not released CF for OS X... it seems a natural. Any help/comments appreciated TIA Dick ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
