VirtPHP vs HomeBrew PHP

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

VirtPHP

Posts with mentions or reviews of VirtPHP. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning VirtPHP yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

HomeBrew PHP

Posts with mentions or reviews of HomeBrew PHP. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning HomeBrew PHP yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing VirtPHP and HomeBrew PHP you can also consider the following projects:

PHP Brew - Brew & manage PHP versions in pure PHP at HOME

PHPEnv - Simple PHP version management

PHP Env - Thin Wrapper around rbenv for PHP version managment

PHP Build - Builds PHP so that multiple versions can be used side by side.

PHP Switch

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

PHP OSX - DEPRECATED: See https://php-osx.liip.ch/ for details. The uploader and website for the PHP 5 package for OS X 10.6 built with https://github.com/liip/build-entropy-php