OK, I'll be a citation :) We want them in RPM format - silent install. There's no way we want to be compiling everything everywhere. We are not even allowed to install compilers on prod servers.
Marcy (like Mark said, trying to keep my head above water, and ...opinions are my own and not necessarily those of Wells Fargo Bank - but they should be :) "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:34 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Best Practices for zSeries linux ISVs? The instance at hand is not a question of whether it is "source only" or "binaries only." The OP was saying that they would prefer to ship source, as opposed to binaries _and_ source. In that situation, I'll take binaries and source, every time. Every IT shop I've run into in the last 10 years or so is too busy keeping their head above water to want their highly paid systems programmers and systems administrators building things from source when binaries are available from their suppliers. We even went through a huge effort to remove a lot of our usermods from MVS and JES2 a good number of years ago because we didn't want to be in the business of supporting home-written code that wasn't 100% absolutely necessary. (I was in charge of the JES2 project. It was successful, but painful.) In the last few years, it's gotten even tighter, all around the industry. Heck, our MVS folks don't even look at dumps any more. "That's why we're paying IBM" is the thinking, and I tend to agree with it. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:50 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Best Practices for zSeries linux ISVs? On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 08:39 +1000, Brendan Kelly wrote: > Most large shops will shy away from compiling from source Can you provide a citation, or is this simply your experience? I'll take source over binaries every time. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
