title: Is there any more lightweight portable PHP+Apache solution for wordpress development?
body: <p>currently i'm using this <a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XAMPP Lite 1.7.3</a> </p>
  
  <pre><code>  + Apache 2.2.14 (IPV6 enabled)
    + MySQL 5.1.41 (Community Server) with PBXT engine 1.0.09-rc
    + PHP 5.3.1 (PEAR)
    + Miniperl 5.10.1
    + XAMPP Control Version 2.5.8 (ApacheFriends Edition)
    + XAMPP CLI Bundle 1.6
    + XAMPP Port Check 1.5
    + XAMPP Security 1.1
    + SQLite 2.8.17
    + SQLite 3.6.20
    + OpenSSL 0.9.8l
    + phpMyAdmin 3.2.4
    + msmtp 1.4.19 (a sendmail compatible SMTP client)
    + Webalizer 2.21-02 (with GeoIP lite)
    + Ming 0.4.3 for PHP
    + PDF with pdflib lite v7.0.4p4 for PHP
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  <p>Do i need all these things just for making and testing Wordpress Theme? Is there any other good lightweight alternative with only needed things?</p>
  
  <p>What thing needed for Wordpress development only?</p>