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[Edward Potter]

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 <rmarscher at beaffinitive.com> wrote:
> On May 10, 2010, at 9:15 PM, justin wrote:
>> You **should** think seriously about homebrew...
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> I've given homebrew a try after installing a php extension via macports upgraded php itself and started giving me segfaults in my application.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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