Topic: RH7 and e-smith development

[david bakody]

I'm interesting in developing applications for e-smith, but I see that Linus has been giving Red Hat 7 a thrashing lately.

Can anyone recommend the best development platform for e-smith?  I see it's moving toward being based on Red Hat 7, which leads me to believe that I would be ahead using RH7 myself.  As an alternative, I'm considering SuSE 7.0.  Is there any reason I should avoid SuSE if my intention is to develop / support e-smith?

Thanks.

[Luke Drumm]

I'm note sure of the exect nature differences of the differences between the Suse and RedHat distro's but my advice would probably go along the lines of:

If you development/build box is inside the network (thus not being 'secured') then I'd go with RedHat for the simple reason that it most closely resembles your production environment (... well at least as far as libraries,directory structure etc.).

One of the most enjoyable bits about the linux world is it's configurablity so it shouldn't be a major issue whatever distro you go with.
As long as you've got access to the required language (and it's libraries), a knowledge of the correct directory structure of RH 6.0+ and the RPM utilties then you should be right no matter what.  

In short: Go with what you feel comfortable with and then (re)configure your build environment to match the e-smith environment.

Regards,
Luke

[Damien Curtain]

> Can anyone recommend the best development platform for
> e-smith?  I see it's moving toward being based on Red Hat 7,

Well depends on what your doing. Assuming you have a spare box/virtual os available for testing, most of the e-smith code is noarch which makes the choice of development your own. The small constraining factor is building rpms, for that Id suggest redhat 6.2, with the latest version 3 update of rpm, avoid 4 if you can.

> which leads me to believe that I would be ahead using RH7
> myself.  As an alternative, I'm considering SuSE 7.0.  Is
> there any reason I should avoid SuSE if my intention is to
> develop / support e-smith?

Never heard positive stories about suse, theres always debian, perhaps one day you might even be able to apt-get e-smith...

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 Damien