[Owncloud] OSX Support

[Michael]

It looks like there is a way to spin up a VM of OSX:
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/
I didn't fully read that though :-)


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Bernhard Posselt
<dev at bernhard-posselt.com>wrote:

> My personal opinion is that you should not use MacOS as a server OS. Why
> not take any Linux distribution which is basically just a flavor of
> MacOS and use that to run ownCloud?
>
> I think for MacOS support we'd need to find a developer who is willing
> to support it and since MacOS is very expensive (you have to buy the
> overprized hardware too) I doubt that there are a lot of ownCloud devs
> who are willing to do this.
>
> On 09/26/2013 08:32 PM, RGR wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > on the ownCloud 6 main features' list, I'm heavily missing the
> reintroduction of the OSX Server Support:
> >
> > It's a pity that you have (understandably) been forced to temporarily
> de-supporting OSX as a server platform,
> > but I strongly believe it is very important to work on this issue
> >
> > not least because of the users'  creditability in the excellence of
> the development team:
> >
> > Everyone knows that OSX finally is "only a Unix dialect" with any
> required components (Apache, PHP etc.) being shipped "out of the OSX box",
> > so will be difficult to continuously justifying that it's the fault of
> OSX (and its strange unicode handling)…
> >
> > I would really like to supporting to findi a solution or at least
> workaround,
> > but unfortunately, I'm not experienced enough in PHP, Unicode etc. ---
> if there's anything I could contribute in terms of "basic research", pls
> let me know...
> >
> >
> > (Besides that, I'm running an OSX Server for other purposes and would
> really love to being able again
> > to implementing an ownCloud instance there without ballasting it with
> a Linux VM!)
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Renato
> >
> >
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