> As for development itself, develop on a Mac for better compatibility > and fewer surprises when you sync your code to a Unix host later. You
I missed the beginning of this conversation, but this bit seems very odd to me. Why would you develop on a Mac? Why not develop on a Ubuntu machine? On Sep 4, 9:48 am, Tom Boutell <t...@punkave.com> wrote: > [Moving this thread to symfony-users as it does not belong in -devs] > > Actually, CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux do not have PHP 5.2.x > yet, so it is fair to say they are actively bad choices for Symfony. > You have to take on maintenance of PHP via some less official > repository or build it yourself, and other distributions don't require > you to do that. So don't go there. > > Ubuntu, on the other hand, is a very good choice for Symfony. A very > recent PHP 5.2.x is standard, APC has been compiled and is easily > enabled... there's even an improved mechanism for cleaning up stale > PHP sessions which you don't have to do anything special to turn on. > So I recommend it. > > As for development itself, develop on a Mac for better compatibility > and fewer surprises when you sync your code to a Unix host later. You > can use MAMP or MacPorts to get a version of Apache and PHP that is > good enough for the job. The standard PHP in MacOS Leopard won't cut > it (I'm not sure whether it's improved in Snow Leopard). > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Pablo Godel<pgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Bob, > > > This is a question that should be posted on the users list, not in the > > devs list which is only used for development OF symfony. > > > In reality, symfony runs on any Linux distro (or OS for that matter) > > that has an acceptable installation of PHP. I would recommend you use > > the distro that your are most comfortable with. > > > regards, > > Pablo > > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Robert Aceti<bob...@cogeco.ca> wrote: > > >> Please let me know which 'nix you are using to develop in symfony and > >> pros cons discovered in installation of symfony. Thank you. > > >> Bob > > > -- > > Pablo Godel > > ServerGrove Networks > >http://servergrove.com/ > > -- > Tom Boutell > P'unk Avenue > 215 755 1330 > punkave.com > window.punkave.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
