>> As for development itself, develop on a Mac for better compatibility
>> and fewer surprises when you sync your code to a Unix host later. You
>> can use MAMP or MacPorts to get a version of Apache and PHP that is
>> good enough for the job. The standard PHP in MacOS Leopard won't cut
>> it (I'm not sure whether it's improved in Snow Leopard).
I understand that there are people out there that love their Macs and
would go to extra miles to be able to do their development in their
Macs. It's worth it because you can definitely be more productive
using OS you enjoy using the most and most familiar with.
But I disagree that you'll get better compatibility and fewer
surprises when you sync your code to a Unix host.
For start, most hosts out there run Linux, not Unix. And more
importantly, although OSX was based on FreeBSD (from distance
genealogy?), from what I read, it is actually quite different
(different file system, file structure, etc).
I believe the differences between Mac and Unix is why something like
MacPort exists:
"The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design
an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either
command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X
operating system."
And MacFink:
"The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source
software to Darwin and Mac OS X. We modify Unix software so that it
compiles and runs on Mac OS X ("port" it) and make it available for
download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg
and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can
choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or
build everything from source."
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Jake Barnes<lkrub...@geocities.com> wrote:
>
>> As for development itself, develop on a Mac for better compatibility
>> and fewer surprises when you sync your code to a Unix host later. You
>
> I missed the beginning of this conversation, but this bit seems very
> odd to me. Why would you develop on a Mac? Why not develop on a Ubuntu
> machine?
>
>
>
> On Sep 4, 9:48 am, Tom Boutell <t...@punkave.com> wrote:
>> [Moving this thread to symfony-users as it does not belong in -devs]
>>
>> Actually, CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux do not have PHP 5.2.x
>> yet, so it is fair to say they are actively bad choices for Symfony.
>> You have to take on maintenance of PHP via some less official
>> repository or build it yourself, and other distributions don't require
>> you to do that. So don't go there.
>>
>> Ubuntu, on the other hand, is a very good choice for Symfony. A very
>> recent PHP 5.2.x is standard, APC has been compiled and is easily
>> enabled... there's even an improved mechanism for cleaning up stale
>> PHP sessions which you don't have to do anything special to turn on.
>> So I recommend it.
>>
>> As for development itself, develop on a Mac for better compatibility
>> and fewer surprises when you sync your code to a Unix host later. You
>> can use MAMP or MacPorts to get a version of Apache and PHP that is
>> good enough for the job. The standard PHP in MacOS Leopard won't cut
>> it (I'm not sure whether it's improved in Snow Leopard).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Pablo Godel<pgo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Bob,
>>
>> > This is a question that should be posted on the users list, not in the
>> > devs list which is only used for development OF symfony.
>>
>> > In reality, symfony runs on any Linux distro (or OS for that matter)
>> > that has an acceptable installation of PHP. I would recommend you use
>> > the distro that your are most comfortable with.
>>
>> > regards,
>> > Pablo
>>
>> > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Robert Aceti<bob...@cogeco.ca> wrote:
>>
>> >> Please let me know which 'nix you are using to develop in symfony and
>> >> pros cons discovered in installation of symfony. Thank you.
>>
>> >> Bob
>>
>> > --
>> > Pablo Godel
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>> >http://servergrove.com/
>>
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> >
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