In this case, the VNC access is both to have a graphical environment, and also have that environment be managed like a company desktop. Having builds done "locally" this way means that there are more controls over what toolchain is used and also more control over where the source code and build artifacts end up.
Greg Rundlett On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <[email protected] > wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman > > > > > Yes, if you can offload the build process to their laptop, that's > great. But > > > there are a lot of reasons people might not want to do that. > > > > VNC allows for this. > > Clarification: > > "offload the build process to the laptop" means people don't use VNC or > anything else to connect to servers remotely. They actually perform the > build locally on their laptops. There are lots of pros and cons of moving > to laptop-centric workstations, hence "there are a lot of reasons people > might not want to do that." > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
