Comments on: How I develop on OSX http://blog.ethanjfast.com/2010/02/why-im-dumb-or-how-i-develop-on-osx/ Lambdas, Hacks, and Fiction Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://blog.ethanjfast.com/2010/02/why-im-dumb-or-how-i-develop-on-osx/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Jeff Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:03:05 +0000 http://blog.ethanjfast.com/?p=276#comment-152 GRAILS works just fine on Snow Leopard. ;) GRAILS works just fine on Snow Leopard. ;)

]]> By: Ethan http://blog.ethanjfast.com/2010/02/why-im-dumb-or-how-i-develop-on-osx/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Ethan Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:52:34 +0000 http://blog.ethanjfast.com/?p=276#comment-73 I'm not entirely sure either -- but my reasoning boils down to this: lacking pm creates another free variable. For whatever reason, this kind of problem never occurs on my linux machines, where I install (almost) everything via pacman. There, I can always know exactly what software I have set up, and where it is... not so much on OSX. Maybe if I cleaned my system and tried out Homebrew, things would be better. Maybe not. Apple has its own pre-installed versions of various things (certainly ruby, and maybe rails), and perhaps I'm paranoid, but I'm never entirely confident that changes to $PATH eliminate them from the equation (hard-coded execution paths, or whatnot). And I agree that TextMate is far from the best editor -- is is good for rails, though. Btw, thanks for commenting -- I don't get a lot of that here. I’m not entirely sure either — but my reasoning boils down to this: lacking pm creates another free variable.

For whatever reason, this kind of problem never occurs on my linux machines, where I install (almost) everything via pacman. There, I can always know exactly what software I have set up, and where it is… not so much on OSX. Maybe if I cleaned my system and tried out Homebrew, things would be better. Maybe not. Apple has its own pre-installed versions of various things (certainly ruby, and maybe rails), and perhaps I’m paranoid, but I’m never entirely confident that changes to $PATH eliminate them from the equation (hard-coded execution paths, or whatnot).

And I agree that TextMate is far from the best editor — is is good for rails, though. Btw, thanks for commenting — I don’t get a lot of that here.

]]> By: Derek Neighbors http://blog.ethanjfast.com/2010/02/why-im-dumb-or-how-i-develop-on-osx/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Derek Neighbors Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:05:34 +0000 http://blog.ethanjfast.com/?p=276#comment-72 I'm not sure how a package management solution solves your particular problem. If you crave such a thing probably best to ditch OS X and go to GNU/Linux. Textmate isn't all that. If you know Lisp why on earth are you not on GNU/Linux using Emacs? I’m not sure how a package management solution solves your particular problem. If you crave such a thing probably best to ditch OS X and go to GNU/Linux. Textmate isn’t all that. If you know Lisp why on earth are you not on GNU/Linux using Emacs?

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