On Oct 18, 2007, at 3:29 AM, Ken Williams wrote:
>
> On Oct 17, 2007, at 10:43 AM, jeremiah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 17, 2007, at 5:25 PM, brian d foy wrote:
>>
>>> In article <B12928BB-8EB2-48E4-
>>> A8DD-4C72CE878099@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> <jeremiah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It looks like I will have to stick with debian for developing my
>>>> LAMP
>>>> applications.
>>>
>>> If you want to work on the Mac, you still can. It doesn't sound like
>>> you want to though.
>>
>> It may sound like that to you, but if I didn't want to develop (in
>> perl) on the Mac, why would I bother writing about this at all?
>
> Perhaps brian thought it was odd that you'd refuse to develop on a
> platform because of the wrong marketing statements, when all the
> right tools are there for both you and any target users.
I have the deepest respect for brian d foy. I have met him personally
in Copenhagen and I think highly of all of his work on behalf of the
perl community. That said, I take exception to his rhetorical reply
to my post.
If you look carefully, you'll see I said I would have to "stick with
debian" when developing my LAMP apps. This means I am trying to
replicate my debian environment (Apache 2 with MP2, TT2, other gunk)
on my Mac. This requires more work than it should perhaps. Not least
because fink is not apt-get and some things are in fink, some are in
Mac****ts and some are in neither. I rely on debian sid and apt-get to
have the latest software from CPAN, and when it doesn't, I try and
package it for debian which is why I am part of the debian-perl team.
I am happy to compile from source, but I loose all the work on
security and compatibility from upstream when I do - not a good trade
off.
When I work on my Mac, I expect everything to "just work." Perhaps
this is wrong when it comes to a development environment for the
reasons stated in this thread and elsewhere on this list but I
thought impatience was virtue for a programmer. In any case, I never
refused to develop for the Mac. <Insert snarky emoticon here.>
Jeremiah
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