I'm a Mac guy. I like MAMP. One click, and I'm up and running. Plus I like the elephant(s) icon. That does it for me. :-)
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Rob Marscher <rmarsc...@beaffinitive.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > -- IM/iChat: ejpusa Links: http://del.icio.us/ejpusa Follow me: http://www.twitter.com/ejpusa Karma: http://www.coderswithconscience.com _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
