On Wed, January 24, 2007 12:14 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Christian Seberino wrote: >>> am unwilling >>> to put up with SVN's massive dependency chain to actually get it to >>> compile on all of my machines, I have yet to use SVN in earnest. >> >> Man I'd be afraid to try to sell you something. Just do >> 'apt-get install subversion' or some such and get on with life. > > Man, I'd be afraid to let you run a software development group. > > If you are developing software, you have to *know* your dependency > chain. Choosing a dependency of "RedHat Enterprise Linux 4" gets you in > massive trouble when something breaks. > > What caused subversion to break? Was it an upgrade to libc? libssh? > subversion? The filesystem? Permissions? etc.
I agree that different Linux platforms are a real headache to target all at once.... What about rather than preemptively learning all your dependency chains, just testing on various distros and only looking into it when there is a problem? The reality is that at least many apps will survive the distro upgrade unscathed. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
