Re: PEAR Meeting - Summary online

<mj@php.net> wrote : > On Fri May 16, 2003 at 11:2237PM +0200, Bertrand Mansion wrote: >> I don't agree at all with the statement : Macosx is not a widely used >> platform. > [...] >> The fact that Solaris is considered as a widely used platform is even more >> laughable. > > Then I must have missed something in the last years. Do you really want > to say that the number of OSX machines running PHP (in production > environments) exceeds the number of Solaris machines? If the term "widely used" refers to production environments only, then I am wrong. If it refers only to development environments, then I am right. And if it refers to both production and development, then I am right again. A lot of developers from both PEAR and PECL are now using MacOSX to develop (George, Shane, Jan, Marko, me and probably others). Apple shows strong support for PHP: http://www.apple.com/creative/webpro/technology/amp/index.html http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/php.html http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/php.html http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/phpappledevtools.html http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/icalendarfiles.html http://developer.apple.com/internet/webservices/soapphp.html Not considering this platform for PFC is a "marketing" mistake IMO. Especially because it wouldn't be such a difficult task, with probably lots to gain and little to loose. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam