On May 10, 2010, at 9:15 PM, justin wrote:
> You **should** think seriously about homebrew... 

I've given homebrew a try after installing a php extension via macports 
upgraded php itself and started giving me segfaults in my application.

Homebrew is keen on not supplying formulas for stuff that comes with Snow 
Leopard (like php 5.3.1) which was fine until I realized this version of php 
was built without readline support and I needed it.

This post over here discusses building php 5.3 from source: 
http://seancoates.com/php-53-on-snow-leopard  But if you look at step 7, you'll 
see it requires patching php for an iconv fix.

I used to compile php from source before I drank the macports kool-aid.  But 
hitting compile errors and needing to find patches to build php is exactly the 
reason I wanted to use a package manager instead.  This is where homebrew is 
falling short for me.




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