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Homebrew vs phing: What are the differences?
Homebrew: The Missing Package Manager for macOS. Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t. Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local; phing: A PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant. It is not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP 'task' classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework.
Homebrew and phing can be categorized as "Package Managers" tools.
Homebrew and phing are both open source tools. Homebrew with 18.6K GitHub stars and 4.15K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than phing with 995 GitHub stars and 299 GitHub forks.
Pros of Homebrew
- Clean, neat, powerful, fast and furious3