



The same for other common technologies like ruby, node, several search systems, etc.Īlso like I mentioned before if you have existing projects that are not on production servers with php 7 your introducing a significant amount of risk working on those projects in php 7 locally. On the other hand, if you were running a vm on puphpet is would be a mater of adding a few lines to a configuration. For example, if a project were to have a dependency on imagick or oauth you would need to install those with xampp. Xampp is a very limited solution only suited for the simplest of tasks because once you begin working on projects that include multiple layers of technology including extensions working directly on a host windows os via xamp becomes problematic. Not to mention learning to use a vm is a skill that persists across all languages. With there is few reasons other than laziness and unwillingness to learn new things not to use it. Xampp is an out dated, amatuer solution to a problem better solved with vms. That puppet repo looks like a language on its own, something like json. Thanks for the puppet link but I’m doing this for my development server and secondly, I don’t use vagrant nor Debian.
