On 8/23/06, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
THEN PUT THE COMPILER ON THE COMPUTER IN QUESTION! Sheesh.
Hmm? What are you ranting about?
"Hi, I just shot myself in the foot, and it really hurts. I don't think it should be that way" uh..then watch where you store your bullets.
I see. You didn't read all the posts.
Having a mechanism to support your production machines with updates and upgrades has to be part of your system. If you opt to make the system more difficult to update by leaving off the compiler, you have to do something else to do the builds If you are worried about urgent, you have a system that can build rapidly, not in days... Very eloquent arguments have been made for why leaving compilers off systems INCREASES security risks due to making the system hard to update.
Haven't made any such "very eloquent arguments". Could you check who you're responding to before posting? Thanks. -- Juha