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Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 10:32:47 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.0.0 final RTM delay
From: ml@anderiasch.de (Florian Anderiasch)

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