On 22/11/2012, at 6:14 PM, Dobes Vandermeer wrote: > As someone with a bit of experience babysitting build servers, there are some > things that break on their own. Disks fill up due to missing log rotations > or too long of a build history being kept. You have to install Windows > Updates and then reboot on a regular basis. Sometimes Windows gets these > "Zombie Files" that can't be deleted without a reboot. Stuff like that ... > there's an economy of scale to keeping a piece of software running, thus the > rise of software as a service.
Yeah, I understand, but we're talking about building Felix which is not a massive complex highly coupled process or anything. The same kinds of problems occur on Unix boxes too. Put a couple of Solaris machines together and you need three sys admins to keep them running and at least one heavily bribed provisioning expert to ensure there's always coffee and fresh milk in the fridge. -- john skaller skal...@users.sourceforge.net http://felix-lang.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
