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Install Slash on Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the that-is-fantastic-news dept.

bcapps2012 writes "I just saw this on Slashcode.com and thought it would be of interest to many apple.slashdot.org readers. Pudge has gotten Slashcode installed on Mac OS X. As jwachter notes: 'For those of you who haven't been following the issue of how to get slash running on OS X, various Slashcode posters have been asking how to get it done for roughly 2 or 3 years now (essentially since the first preview of OS X was released).' Finally Mac OS X has joined the family."

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  1. Re:One question... by notNeilCasey · · Score: 5, Informative
    jwachter posts in the comments on the page in question:
    For the past year, a conflict between Apache::Cookie and Apache::Request on OS X has been the last obstacle to getting this done.
    So that was part of the problem ... I guess. -Neil
  2. Why didn't someone just ask MacSlash? by mike_lynn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They've been running Slashcode on an XServe for quite some time now, they even mention it here.
    Somehow I doubt it's taken this long to get Slashcode running on OS X. OS X tends to be semi-trivial to port to for non-hardware or assembly code dependant software.

  3. Re:One question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bullshit. The only moved to Apple hardware recently with the acquisition of the Xserve. Otherwise Netcraft has them running FreeBSD as late as last December (link above), and they note that they only switched to the Xserve sometime since July 1.

    Even though they updated it, they're still running an older version of Slashcode, so maybe it's not as relevant to this story since it's not the latest and greatest. I don't know the details of the porting issues to know if this is a factor at all... But unlike you, I checked my facts and admit when I don't know the truth!

  4. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now even Macs can suffer the most god-awful uncompliant HTML markup since people stopped using Microsoft Publisher to export web pages.

  5. Re:One question... by 47Ronin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not the architecture... The problem is that the directions for SlashCode are so complex that it turns off most people. It's 10 times easier to install GeekLog or MovableType on OSX because the instructions for the install are super-straightforward.

    --
    Those who laugh at you for you having a Mac.. are the people who constantly call you to fix their PC.