[ale] Fedora grousing

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 10/23/2013 09:48 AM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> 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.

There is /some/ merit to the date argument, /but only when directly 
called for by requirements/.

I can't speak for other developers, but if you're willing to pay me to 
reinvent the wheel that was already invented in a later release of the 
software, or to backport it, or whatever, well, that's just fine and 
dandy.  I'll do so happily---that's just more hours for me to bill, 
that's all.  Irritating?  Less than ideal?  Sure, but look at the paycheck!

There are certainly things that are easier to implement in PHP 5.4, for 
example, over 5.3.  But there is nothing that comes up in my mind that 
is impossible to implement in 5.3 syntax.  Just less convenient, more 
verbose, and less performant.  But if you want to pay me to do it that 
way, because 5.3 is the hard requirement, then I'll be quite happy to 
oblige after informing you that by the by, it would be less expensive 
and more robust if you use inbuilt functionality, and you've refused.

     --- Mike

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