Who would have thought I would have to install Adium? Apparently the fact that Pidgin is its foundation is not so well known. (Ok, I had a slip of the tongue and called it by its old name, but still…) I am supposed to install MAMP, and I wondered what it was so I went and found out that it just installs Apache, MySQL, PHP, eAccelerator, and PHPMyAdmin. I don’t use PHPMyAdmin. I don’t know what eAccelerator is so I have to figure that out, but I suspect it’s something I don’t absolutely need. So I just need to install MySQL. So that’s probably what I’ll do. I don’t want some random installer to touch my Apache and PHP. Too bad I can’t run pidgin on a Mac. I still don’t understand why Apple has made it so difficult to run normal X11-based Unix apps.

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eAccelerator does what APC does but faster, but apparently is an orphaned project, so XCache might be a saner choice if speed is an issue. MySQL is here.