On 06.12.2015 09:46, Christian Stocker wrote: > > On 04.12.15 23:17, Andrea Faulds wrote: >> Hi Florian, >> >> I think it's worth pointing out that for OS X, Apple themselves >> distribute PHP, and in addition there's decent community package >> managers (Homebrew's the one I like), and it's easy to build yourself.
> I'm fine with having that outside of PHP.net and concentrating the > efforts of the PHP community on the source releases (and Windows ;)) Hi, I was in no way trying to encourage any change for anyone that's not intended ;) My experiences in the past though showed me that "web developers" doing only PHP and JavaScript development *very often* are neither interested nor have the knowledge to easily build PHP on either Windows or OS X. (Yes, it sounds like the typical cliche that only the Linux users know how to do that by default, but it absolutely matches what I saw.) And afaik Apple only delivers one version per OS X release, so that only solves some problems. My point was that it's very easy to build on Linux and I've seen a share of problems on both Windows and OS X for people who haven't invested some effort. (Maybe more effort than necessary.) But I did forget about Homebrew and maybe back then this was a bigger problem than it is now. Gretings, Florian -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
