On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Luis.F.Correia wrote:
>
> >Take a look at Cisco I'd say. I never have to compile IOS from source, but
> >they're pretty responsible in reporting security issues.
>
> Provided you'll pay for the fixes.
>
> They do NOT offer nothing for free... but they never said that either...
True. Point for me was that you don't need Unix or gcc to fix a bug on an
appliance, tftp suffices. Having a good build system is great for us, the
developers, but isn't something I personally would want to have my users
worry about (except if they want to contribute/extend/do the open source
thing).
It's for me the same thing as people lamenting the XBSD ports system,
which is admittedly very elegant. But as an admin for close to 80 servers,
binary packages (self-created or vendor-supplied) will win any day over
running "make world" on every machine and its camel. I think that as a
collective, we developers tend to think that what makes a great system for
*us* is usually an incomprehensible needlessly complex pile of jibberish
to the people who are actually supposed to use it. And then we whine about
how clueless they are :)
Pi
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