NYCPHP Meetup

[Ajai Khattri]

Jayesh Sheth wrote:

> you realize how wonderful Windows DLLs are.

Or how difficult Windoze can be when you choose not to do things the M$ way.

> But no, on Linux you have to first go through the whole compile song 
> and dance - first for the libraries you want, then again for PHP.

Most Linux distros have great package managers that handle all this crap 
for you.

> I may not have said this before, but Thank God for Bill Gates and 
> Microsoft for have spared me this misery of compilation so far! (If 
> only Windows weren't so easily hackable, WAMP would be an AWESOME 
> platform.)


Source-based distros like Gentoo make rebuilding very very easy - I 
never configure stuff "by hand" anymore, don't need to.

-- 
Aj.
Systems Administrator / Developer