Since my original Moving to Mac post, Adobe was kind enough to throw me into the ColdFusion 8.01 pre-release program. A quick download later, and I got to run the installer. Not only was the install process about 10x faster than my last CF8 install on Windows, but the process *after* the install, the loading screen you get the first time you try to go into the cfadmin, was only up for about 5 seconds before it was done. I remember on my Windows 2003 quad-core Xeon server it took what seemed like 5 minutes.
The even better news: The installer just *works*. It detected my default OS X Apache install, got the connector all wired up properly, and it’s lightning fast. Great news for everyone else thinking about switching to a Mac / Leopard!
Not that I think it’ s a big deal, but don’t forget that being in the Prerelease program means you signed an NDA, and that NDA specifically states you can’t even say you are in the program (or it used to), and you probably shouldn’t be talking about it in general unless you get permission from Adobe.
Just sayin’.
Oops. I’ve seen around the interwebs that other people have it and have used it to successfully install on 10.5, figured I’d chime in with the same. I wouldn’t be silly enough, though, to talk about any features or bugs, if I’d found any. Worst case, Adobe asks me to remove the post and I do.