On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 17:10 +0800, Cocoy wrote:
> you should see how rigorous gentoo's testing are.... nothing gets > "unmasked" until its stable... rivals debian... but like i said... to > each his own... you've got your own ideas... and i respect that you > guys may not have the flexibility i may have in how i accomplish > things. and there are limits in your activities. Does Gentoo have a stable branch now? Or is it still always in-flux? Stability in terms of packages is still a very important issue for ISV's/ASP's, as it's way too much too much effort to track down changes when applications get major version upgrades (new code, new bugs!). Pinning down on a certain version does help, but when you'd have to do it all on your own, tracking security issues while maintaining compatibility with the other packages in your system (which really really matters when you're an ISV/ASP or administrator), having the burden passed on to the vendor really eases the pains. Hence these days I don't anymore use Debian unstable (nor would think of using Gentoo) as these are just way too unstable for deployments. I'd rather be conservative about an always-running service rather than track down every change, note the fixes that I really need without breaking compatibility, then manually patch apps while praying it won't break anything that would force me to do months-long rewrites to my applications. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
