[ale] Fedora grousing

[leam hall]

As opposed to RHEL, where to install PHP i have to install perl? To update
rpm I have to install lua-libraires?




On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> writes:
>
> > The whole "not up to date enough" garbage from web people makes me
> > want to puke constantly.  I can't tell you how many times I get a web
> > developer who has developed some site in PHP on the latest Ubuntu
> > Ornery Orangatan or Pliable Platypus, or whatever the latest Ubuntu
> > release of the minute is, with every PHP option installed and the
> > latest bleeding edge version.  They try to get it to run on one of our
> > SLES 11 or RHEL 6 servers, and it won't...  they don't understand that
> > I can't just "upgrade to PHP 5.4.x"...yeah...5.3 with backported
> > security updates is currently supported on this release - don't like
> > it?  Take a hike.  Oh, and giving them dev space on a server with the
> > same patch level doesn't help, because they can't possibly work within
> > the confines of THAT old environment.
> > The fact that so many web people think developing on a bleeding-edge
> > workstation distro is a sane idea just throws fuel on the fire of my
> > dislike for Ubuntu.
>
> Try to use Ruby on Rails and not use bleeding-edge!  Whenever you create
> a new app it wants to pull down all the most current gems possible.
>
> -derek
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