NativeSPMacInstall, homebrew

[Philip Durbin]

I'm interested in adding Shibboleth SP to the Apache httpd that comes
bundled with my Mac.

I just found* a wiki page at
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPMacInstall
that has some very helpful information but it looks like it hasn't
been updated in four and half years.

Can anyone please give me a sense of running Shibboleth SP on Mac?
Good idea? Bad idea? Easy? Hard?

This is for (another, non-OIOSAML) attempt at adding Shibboleth
support to an app (Dataverse) as I posted about originally here:
http://shibboleth.net/pipermail/users/2013-February/008029.html

Any tips are appreciated! Thanks!

Phil

p.s. If someone is working on a homebrew recipe, please let me know!
MacPorts is mentioned on that wiki page but these days use `brew
install` whenever I can. Interestingly, `brew search | grep shib`
shows me log4shib:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/OpenSAML/log4shib

p.p.s. Recent thoughts of mine on Shibboleth SP (especially vs.
OIOSAML), if anyone's interested:
https://lists.iq.harvard.edu/pipermail/dvn-auth/2014-April/000006.html

p.p.p.s. Weird that mod_ssl doesn't "just work" by default on Mac (
http://blog.andyhunt.info/2011/11/26/apache-ssl-on-max-osx-lion-10-7/
and http://superuser.com/q/73979/10881 ) ... I'm too used to Linux!
Bonus question: Should I download a LAMP stack instead of using the
bundled httpd on Mac?

* via http://www.jeesty.com/shibboleth which starts with "Setting up
Shibboleth has been one of my worst experiences in recent memory." :(
... on RHEL/CentOS it's so easy with yum! :)

-- 
Philip Durbin
Software Developer for http://thedata.org
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin