[ale] Fedora grousing

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 10/23/2013 09:48 AM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> 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.

Meant to also reply to this statement in my previous email.  Oops.

I /run/ current distributions, but for any given project, I /develop in 
the target environment/.  I don't run test code on my workstation; my 
workstation is a production machine that is to be my toolbox and it is 
to be configured such that I can do my job the most efficiently I can. I 
can afford to run newer tools on my workstation.

However, if a project is to be deployed in Debian 6, then the staging 
environment for that project that I am working in /is also Debian 6/ and 
/is configured exactly as the specifications have provided for/.  This 
is the only way that software development can truly be done.  Of course, 
all of these are on VMs and not real hardware (unless the project is 
itself a hardware project).

I *intentionally* run my staging environment lean on resources, as 
well.  I only give 192 MB or 256 MB to my testing systems because if the 
Web app cannot run in that, either something is wrong or the 
requirements are in need of adjustment.

I abhor people who develop, test and run on workstation-class hardware 
for things that are intended to be deployed and used on desktop, laptop 
or server systems.  I think it's irresponsible to the extreme---and yet 
it is a method of standard operation for e.g. Java shops.

     --- Mike

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