On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you may remember a few weeks ago, I was asking about KDE and kdevelop > for centos5. I recommended against it, the client insisted, now we are > seeing it's buggy as hell, the kde4RHEL repositories give us binaries > newer than what Ubuntu offers, but it gets stuck and sometimes explodes, > totally unworkable. On the other hand, auto-tools are really old on > Centos5, and so, generally, it's not a devel environment, even though > the final build of the product will have to be done on it. > > which brings me to the question - should I stick to Fedora (7? 8?) for the > devel
As far as I'm aware, Fedora 9 is the latest and the next version is expected soon. > environment and break from the RPM world and go for Lenny or Hardy? it's > obvious that I have to choose something that is NOT RHEL-5 in style or > age. I need a kdevelop and kdesvn that are KNOWN TO WORK. I'm not familiar with these packages but what about checking kdevelop's sources? Maybe they provide enough to build it (or even RPM's) from source (after checking Hetz' pointer to kde-redhat)? Introducing other distributions into their network would mean that you'll have to watch for issues like version mismatching (libc, tools), keeping the various installations up to date, and just generally take care of yet another distribution type. I'd suggest considering such an option very carefully and try hard to avoid it. Rule #1 for me as a network admin is to try to minimize the number of technologies you use. (e.g. distributions, versions, languages, compilers, databases, applications). Plus - Hardy doesn't give a generally warm fuzzy feeling of stability, stick to Gutsy for now if you go the Ubuntu route. I'm sure I'm not the only one on this list curious to hear how you went forward with this... Cheers, --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
