The instance at hand is not a question of whether it is "source only" or "binaries only." The OP was saying that they would prefer to ship source, as opposed to binaries _and_ source. In that situation, I'll take binaries and source, every time. Every IT shop I've run into in the last 10 years or so is too busy keeping their head above water to want their highly paid systems programmers and systems administrators building things from source when binaries are available from their suppliers. We even went through a huge effort to remove a lot of our usermods from MVS and JES2 a good number of years ago because we didn't want to be in the business of supporting home-written code that wasn't 100% absolutely necessary. (I was in charge of the JES2 project. It was successful, but painful.) In the last few years, it's gotten even tighter, all around the industry.
Heck, our MVS folks don't even look at dumps any more. "That's why we're paying IBM" is the thinking, and I tend to agree with it. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Best Practices for zSeries linux ISVs? On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 08:39 +1000, Brendan Kelly wrote: > Most large shops will shy away from compiling from source Can you provide a citation, or is this simply your experience? I'll take source over binaries every time. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
