[ale] Fedora grousing

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

"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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