I hear ya... I'm doing dev on a linux box, and that catches most of the incompatibilities during dev (I am lead and doing most of the coding) - those that don't get caught there get caught on the test server (which is a duplicate of the live boxes). I agree running dev in the same environment would be ideal, but OpenBSD, while a great stable box, has its challenges when trying to get other new desktop software running on it.
Although giving dev's a VM they could shove the code over into do do some testing on that platform themselves is a neat idea... hmmmm
thanks!
Markus Wolff wrote:
Bill Chmura wrote:Shaun: I actually already found your post, and so far it is the most likely scenario if I cannot get a pure PHP solution working - The server is OpenBSD, but development is done on OSX, Linux, and Windows so it presents a problem with the XPDF. But if push comes to shove it's where I will be heading.A little off-topic, but if it's clear what the deployment platform is (OpenBSD in this case), I can highly recommend using a virtualization tool such as VirtualBox or vmWare to run a setup very similar to the deployment system right on your dev box. Not only will this eliminate the problem that the tools you use in production are not available in your dev environment, it also helps avoiding portability problems - code that works perfectly on a Windows box does not neccessarily work on a Unix box without modifications. Case-sensitivity in filenames, different path separators and the likes are only the most common and obvious issues, but some functions and/or extensions may also behave differently across operating systems. CU Markus
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