On Thursday, 22 בMay 2008, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Mike Kemelmakher, from the post of Thu, 22 May: > > I completely agree and support Gilads opinion - developing commercial > > product on Fedora is a bad idea. > > great. so we all agree.
No we don't ;-) > Fedora is bad for production. That's correct. But we were talking about a *development* environment. If there are hundreds of developers, than there's a point to what Gilad said in that this environment is "production" in itself and need long maintenance periods. However, if there are 10-20 developers it should be pretty easy to set a uniform deployment of Fedora and upgrade it e.g. once a year (skipping one click). The software selection is bigger by several factors from what a typical "enterprise" can offer (compare the number of packages in Fedora repos vs. RedHat/Centos) and have more up to date versions. Obviously, if your target is RedHat/Centos, you'll have to set up a RedHat/Centos server for final integration/testing. But that's no reason to punish all developers desktop experience. Another advantage in this kind of setup, is that when people develop on Fedora (while integrating with RedHat/Centos) they have a looking glass into the next RedHat/Centos release. This means that if they started few months ago using Fedora-8, by the time they are ready to ship their code (after beta, field tests, etc. ~1 year?) RedHat would ship the next RHEL based on F8+F9+F10. [If you needed a Debian based system, I think the same logic would apply: People desktop would use Debian-testing (at least for selected packages), while final integration would be done on target host (Debian-Etch)] -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 Linux lasts longer! -- "Kim J. Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
