Lindsay Haisley writes: > It's probably just as easy to bypass the precompiled Ubuntu package and > work straight from the Mailman distribution. If I have issues, which > are ususally creative problems with Python, I'd much rather work with > the Mailman devs than with Canonical :-)
We do like to hear we're easy to work with! "The distros" (and that includes even Gentoo and Arch, to some degree) do have their place, but it's not in the specialized mission-critical components of the system. Depending on your application, you may want to apply that even to the kernel and libc, but most of the time there's a long list of highly complex and widely used components (kernel, libc, Apache, ...) that the distros do quite well enough, and you rarely if ever run into issues (whether software bugs or admin PEBKAC). But when you do run into issues, whether a need for customization or a bug, it help a lot to be using something as close to upstream's recommended configuration as possible. That's why many projects (not just Mailman) recommend building from source. (Yeah, I know you know this, Lindsay. It's worth repeating occasionally, though. "This automatically-triggered recording was brought to you by the FLUFL's Fluffy Support Brigade and the Mailman Devs." :-) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
