Les Mikesell wrote:
On 6/14/2011 10:41 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Ok... do you have in-house developed software? I've got one team that's
<snip> >> 10? 11? to 13 was a nightmare, and X wouldn't work until I got rid of >> gnome, and put KDE on.... >> >> I want solid and stable. > > I don't get the comparisons. Do you have some specific bad experience
I guess you don't.
I didn't mean I don't understand the problem you describe. I just don't understand why you blame anyone but the developers in your scenario.
I'm an admin. I'm a contractor. I have *ZERO* control over what they write, or in what languages. I am *required* to make sure that the environment, that is under my control, doesn't break what they're doing. That leads back to "I want a solid, stable platform". <snip>
Nope - the O/S and all the packages with it *are* the environment that I refer to.
How many of them actually affect a java app (which if done right will be equally at home across linux/mac/windows)? And you couldn't seriously have considered using a CentOS packaged java at all until very recently, so I don't understand thinking that CentOS would have been a solution for this.
Um, sorry, mostly word is to use openjdk. We have one or two projects that have managed to force using Sun Java, though. <snip>
I'll stick with CentOS...oh, that's right, I should only make comments like that on a CentOS list....
OK, but what was that about things like ruby and java? (Java being more or less OK now...). If you don't use/need software from this decade, then maybe it isn't a big issue for you either way.
"This decade"? Oh, come *on* Mike, be real. Just because the languages they use are changing continually doesn't mean that a *language* compiler or interpreter a couple-three years old shouldn't work.
mark "ought to get back to coding some C (k&r)"