Quite provocative topic, but that was question which came in my mind when I wanted to try out new non relational databases like CouchDB or MongoDB. I will warn you: this post will contain some whining ;)
I don’t know was it the architecture or what but I had lot of problems when I was trying to install those databases. I have been using OS X 10.4 for over three years and most of the time all programs was compiling fine. If building failed it was mostly because of some missing libraries.
Recently I upgraded to OS X 10.6 which is first 64 bit OS X. With Snow leopard I haven’t even compiled anything by myself but using Macports. Whit this setup even one PHP upgrade has failed, but that was easy to fix. I run port clean php5 and tried after that again and everything went fine.
