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What was the original intent of bundling php + ruby on rails in a workstation OS?
by schoolornot 6y ago
What was the original intent of bundling php + ruby on rails in a workstation OS?
- mdoms 6y agoAnd perl and python2 and gcc among others.
- sukilot 6y agoMacOS X was invented before package managers and virtual machines/containers and the whole cloud thing became popular on Mac. Mac ships with Apache too.
- skissane 6y agoI think it was a good idea in principle, but worked out poorly in practice. Pro: You don't have to download it, it is already there Con: It is always going to be an old and outdated version, since Apple can't keep up with the open source developers, so you probably need to download it anyway, and then deal with the confusion of having both the old and new versions installed They probably didn't foresee how it was going to work out in practice, in hindsight they probably wish they'd made a different decision. You learn from experience. Also, Unix OS vendors have had a historical culture of bundling things. Back in the old days, before widespread availability of the Internet, it made sense to bundle as much with the OS as possible, since if it wasn't bundled it was hard to get. Even after the Internet became widely available, back in the dark ages of dial-up, downloads were so slow, it made sense to include as much as possible out of the box. It is a different world now. But keep in mind that Mac OS X Server 1.0 was released all the way back in 1999, and back then those times were still the reality for many people, and a recent memory for many more.
- minikomi 6y agoA bicycle for the mind