Long time from previous post. I have been quite busy with my work and other hobbies and therefore haven’t had too much time for hacking. This month I had some spare time and started migrating my VPS from Slicehost to Linode. I have one python program where I use MongoDB and Mongokit which I was installing with easy_install. For all depencies I picked lastest versions and result wast that program wasn’t working.
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.