Sid, there are people out there who develop Symfony code on Windows and then deploy to Linux or other Unix expecting no surprises. Even worse, there are people who don't test locally at all, tweaking files remotely on a server all the time. To them, developing on a Mac is a revelation. (:
Of course Linux on your own desktop is a closer match than MacOS X. The biggest downside of MacOS X for development and testing with Symfony that I've experienced is the case insensitive file system which leads to "gotcha" bugs when you deploy to the server. It also leads to frustrations with svn when you need to fix those bugs (you have to rename the file twice to fix it successfully). (Yes, you can install MacOS X with a case sensitive file system but important apps developers depend on, like Photoshop, will not play nice if you do.) I personally rely on MacPorts, not MAMP, for the whole stack including Apache/PHP and MySQL. But my coworkers are happy with a mix of MAMP and MacPorts. Mac developers apparently include Fabien, who has created a Symfony bundle for the Mac-based TextMate editor. But I'm not sure whether he's testing live on the Mac or on, perhaps, a Linux virtual machine with a shared filesystem. Speaking of which: one best-of-all-possible-worlds scenario is to set up your Linux distribution of choice in a VirtualBox virtual machine. Doesn't cost a penny, and if you get the filesharing right you should be able to code in TextMate without any tedious syncing to your local test environment. You don't even have to set up the X GUI for the server in that scenario, which makes the VM a lot less heavy in CPU terms. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
