First–Leopard is fine. This isn’t a rant about Leopard, more of a rant against myself for doing breaking a very simple rule (again): Never mess with your development machine when you’re trying to launch a product.
Leopard came to my doorstep at 10 AM on the 26th, and being the early-adopter I always am, it was promptly on my machines by 2 PM. It is now a week later, and I still haven’t gotten all my development stuff fixed that I broke as a result of the upgrade. Basically, if you already have
- Name Based Virtual Hosts (NetInfo Manager, which made this easy, is gone…)
- SSL
- MySQL, and
- GD support
a Leopard upgrade will probably hose it. MySQL was easy enough to get going, but it’s taken me an shameful amount of searches to get the first two issues fixed (see all the searches), and now I’ve just stumbled on a 30+ step guide to getting GD support back, which looks like will require recompiling Apache, and probably break the virtual hosts and SSL support I just got working.Again, it’s my fault–never do a major OS upgrade on your development server in the middle of a big project–it’ll cost you.
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