John Nilsson <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Joke apart, people are still resiting a lot to stochastic software. >> One problem with random spreading of updates is that its random. > > Random as in where it's applied or random in what's applied?
Both. The problem is that it would give more work to system administrators everywhere trying to explain to users why this software on this computer has this bug, while this "same" software on this other computer hasn't. It would also complicate bug reporting. > I was thinking that the viral part was a means to counter the seeming > randomness in an otherwise chaotic system. Similar in spirit in how > gardening creates some amount of order and predictability, a gardener > who can apply DNA tweaks as well as pruning. > > As I understand it CFEngine does something like this wile limited to > "simple" configuration. > > BR, > John > -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
