[ale] OT: ruby/redmine/apache

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/08/2012 08:48 PM, JD wrote:
>
> > BTW, using RVM is a great idea. NEVER use the OS perl, python, php or
> ruby
> > installs for non-OS purposes. That just beings dependency problems at
> every
> > upgrade, unless you can use the package system for the apps (redmine)
> too.
>
> I will disagree with this from an enterprise perspective. If you use the
> OS version then you are letting the OS team maintain security
> vulnerability remediations. If your application can't handle an upgrade
> you probably need to find a better application.
>

I totally concur with this.  OS has done the hard(est) work. Don't let the
developers of the end application make life hell by using "special"
versions of tools that can't be audited with a security trace.

>
> The other side of that is if you are happy to spend your time
> recompiling and distributing your application every time software you
> depend on comes out. For Java that would be about 4-6 times a year. Not
> as often for the others.
>

I pity the .NET developers. That pile of trash gets updated every month on
the second Tuesday. I don't see Mono crowing much any more. :-)

>
> It really depends on where you want to spend your time.
>
> Leam
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