[Slashcode-general] OSX Installation Revisited - Slash on Tiger

[Craig H. <cra...@go...>]

I've found a couple of stories on slashcode.com regarding Slash on OSX,
however nothing recent and I was wondering if the situation has changed any
with Tiger (and indeed perhaps Leopard). For example, while somepody
mentioned a good guide to installing mod_perl for OSX, AFAIK it was written
around four years ago, and a lot has changed since then. Unlike back in the
day, the likes of PHP4 and mod_perl can now be enabled in OSX simply by
uncommenting them in httpd.conf, and MySQL (as well as PHP5) can be
installed with a friendly binary.

As someone who's looking to install Slash on Tiger, do any of these
developments make things any more straightforward or does Slash still
require everything to be built from scratch? If it's the latter, does anyone
have any pointers for someone who's not afraid of the command line but a bit
of a greenhorn when it comes to the likes of apt-get and make? Also, how
does the OSX install process differ from the Linux one?

Thanks!