> 0. Lots of our developers work on multiple platforms. For me at > least, I prefer a setup that's as similar as possible on all > machines. So Solaris packages are of little interest to me (but I > don't work on Solaris).
But I would much rather that someone else took responsibilty for supplying and supporting the setup, rather than me having to maintain it myself on all the machines I use. So having tools coming preinstalled is good. That is, if what's preinstalled is complete. See also John Plocher's comment. While I do use findbugs, I don't use it in isolation - and if I've got to hunt down and install half my toolset, then there's relatively little value in just having some of the bits. > 1. When a new final FindBugs release appears, if it's not added to > Solaris promptly, then who will want to use the Solaris version? The > update latency must not be longer than a month. I normally have the opposite issue - I often end up maintaining my own copies of tools (and deinstalling the system ones) to stop things from being changed underneath me. But this is a generic packaging and delivery issue, rather than architectural. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
