perfsonar development work

[Cesaroni Giovanni <>]

I totally agree with Jochen

Cheers,
Giovanni

Jochen Reinwand wrote:
> Hi Nicolas, all,
>
> On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:03, Nicolas Simar wrote:
>   
> > Cesaroni Giovanni wrote:
> >     
> > > > What are the drawbacks of such methods?
> > > > Could it be a way of providing easy to install perfsonar web-services
> > > > or it will decrease their performances?
> > > >         
> > > The use of VMW has no particular drawbacks other than what Jochen said,
> > > but I don't think it is a good solution:
> > > all the sw is usually installed on a linux box by the package manager of
> > > the system (for debian apt-get, for red hat yum and so on) from a pakage
> > > (.deb, .rpm, ..) with just a command. It will be nice to have such a
> > > linux package of each perfsonar service.
> > >       
> > What is the difference with ANT currently used?
> >     
>
> Ant is more a replacement for "configure;make;make install" and not really for 
> package management! Nearly every system administrator prefers to have 
> software in the form the operating system handles software packages, like 
> RPM. There are many reasons for that. For one of the most important see my 
> next comment.
>
>   
> > > Moreover, in this case, the upgrade of the sw to a new release will be
> > > very easy.
> > >       
> > How is it easier?
> >     
>
> For Linux there are special update mechanisms (mostly yum and apt) that do a 
> lot of work for you when it comes to updating software. This is the way 
> system administrators expect such things to be handled. Why not use the power 
> these systems offer?
>
> greetings,
> Jochen
>
>   


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