On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:03:25 +0200, Sybren Stuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Sommers enlightened us with: >> We just did that at work (developed on the corporate-issued non-Unix >> computers and then deployed on a Linux box), and had no problems at >> all. In a former life, I was a long-time embedded system developer, >> where we *always* developed on one platform and deployed on another. >> My experience with developing on your deployment platform is that >> it's too easy for platform dependencies to sneak in without being >> caught. > I agree with you there. My bet is that you also *tested* on the > deployment platform, though. You win that bet. (We actually tested on both platforms.) *Not* testing on the deployment platform is *definitely* asking for trouble. Regards, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> "I wish people would die in alphabetical order." -- My wife, the genealogist -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list