phpbrew mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• phpbrew

Projektgeschichte

PHPBrew was created by Yo-An Lin, with Márcio Almada also credited by the official documentation. It is implemented in PHP and was designed to build and manage multiple PHP versions without requiring system-wide installation.

Adoptionsgeschichte

PHPBrew follows the language-version-manager pattern popularized in developer tooling: versions are installed beneath the user’s home directory and can be selected per shell. Homebrew distributes the PHPBrew command itself, while PHPBrew compiles the requested PHP runtimes.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users initialize shell integration with `phpbrew init`, build a runtime with `phpbrew install`, and select versions with `phpbrew use` or `phpbrew switch`. Additional commands install extensions, edit php.ini, and manage PHP-FPM.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

PHPBrew appeals to package-oriented developers because it makes PHP build variants explicit and reproducible at the command line. Its variant system can combine database, debugging, web-server, and extension options while accommodating dependency prefixes from Homebrew, MacPorts, Debian, and Ubuntu.

Zeitleiste

• Early project: Yo-An Lin created PHPBrew as a pure-PHP tool for managing locally built PHP versions.
• PHP 5 era: The documented workflow supported old PHP releases, compile variants, PECL extensions, Apache modules, and PHP-FPM.
• Current project: PHPBrew remains available as a Homebrew formula and through its official PHAR releases.

Related projects

• PHP source releases are the runtimes PHPBrew builds.
• PECL supplies many extensions handled by PHPBrew’s extension commands.
• Homebrew and MacPorts prefixes can be detected when resolving build dependencies.

Quellen

• Official documentation: https://phpbrew.github.io/phpbrew
• Official wiki: https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew/wiki
• source_facts.package-manager