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Doc Bug #37473 MacOS X documentation update
Submitted: 2006-05-17 08:31 UTC Modified: 2010-10-20 19:19 UTC
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From: philip@php.net Assigned: philip (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Mac OS X
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-05-17 08:31 UTC] philip@php.net 
Description:
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The Mac OS X install section of the manual is outdated. Some considerations:

1. Precompiled packages

It appears darwinports is the most up-to-date resource for this, with fink being another common resource. entropy.ch offers a popular build with excellent information too but using a popular command such as 'port' seems more documentation worthy. We could link to all three with emphasis on darwinports.

Also, these docs should never link to a specific file as they do currently (libphp4.so.gz), these docs should be generic in nature.

2. Compiling it

The documentation should provide information for users wanting to compile PHP themselves as currently this information does not exist within the 'MacOS X Client' docs. There are some user comments that look helpful for this, and if needed we could also ask a few "mac experts" out there for helpful tips/info for making this process work, and mention common problems that could come about.

3. The "provided by Marc Liyanage" can be removed, we do not write author information in the manual. Whoever updates these docs will be rewriting them anyways...

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 [2009-05-08 17:45 UTC] danbrown@php.net 
Philip, this appears to have been fixed in the XML sources, but never 
closed.  See if it's to the level you envisaged (nearly three years ago) 
and then perhaps we can close this off.
 [2009-05-08 17:52 UTC] philip@php.net 
This bug is partially solved. Example of bad:

http://php.net/manual/en/install.macosx.client.php
 [2010-10-20 19:18 UTC] philip@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of philip
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=304566
Log: Updated Mac docs, and removed the old parts. Still needs a few Mac specific tidbits however. Closes PHP bug #37473
 [2010-10-20 19:19 UTC] philip@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed -Assigned To: rbowen +Assigned To: philip
 
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