On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:04:00AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2008/5/23 Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Another advantage in this kind of setup, is that when people develop > > on Fedora (while integrating with RedHat/Centos) they have a looking > > glass into the next RedHat/Centos release. > > > > This means that if they started few months ago using Fedora-8, by the > > time they are ready to ship their code (after beta, field tests, > > etc. ~1 year?) RedHat would ship the next RHEL based on F8+F9+F10. > > > And you expect customers to deploy the next RHEL as soon as it's out?
Not all of them. But some of them. It's possible to build an older environment on a newer system, but more complicated to build a newer environment on the older system. > Based on your explanation of the Fedora vs. RHEL relations, I'd come to the > opposite conclusion - Fedora is too "futuristic" for proper production > environments. > And again - even for 10-20 developers, having to deal with the differences > in library availability, versions, and quirks of patch variations will > weight things down compared to the advantage of having some more tools > around. > Even installing Fedora or RpmForge packages on top of RHEL (where they don't > replace relevant RHEL stuff) would seem a little more attractive than > introducing a full Fedora distro into the mix, IMHO. > > [If you needed a Debian based system, I think the same logic would > > apply: People desktop would use Debian-testing (at least for selected > > packages), while final integration would be done on target > > host (Debian-Etch)] > > > I see what a headache it is to have backports around on my desktop if I want > to stick to "production server setup". I'd recommend against this unless you > aim to use testing/stable in production for that version of the product. BTW: it seems that in the latest versions you'll also find the latest versions of the build tools. And that makes it often best to build packages. Even for older systems. e.g: pbuilder on Debian . -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend ================================================================= 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]
