Re: Switching Between Development and Production Environments

in reply to Switching Between Development and Production Environments

svsingh and melly,

kinda off topic, but seeing linux is free and grub is stable, why put yourself through such pain when the production environment is linux, and add linux to your machines as a development environment??

Sam

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Re: Switching Between Development and Production Environments by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Oct 06, 2003 at 20:33 UTC
Switching to a the same OS doesn't solve this particular problem. Of course there are advantages if your development, testing and production areas all use the same platform, but that has little to do with configuration issues. Typical configuration issues include (but are not limited to): user names, passwords, database names, database servers, file and directory names, hostnames, and port numbers. One way of dealing with it is by using environment variables, but that quickly becomes unwieldy. A typical way of dealing with this is configuration files. Configuration files could be stored at a fixed location (say /etc/opt/app/application-name/config); a location relative the program, the working directory during startup, or the home-directory of the user; given as a parameter of the program; passed via an environment variable; or some combination of them. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: Switching Between Development and Production Environments by BUU (Prior) on Oct 06, 2003 at 18:09 UTC
They like windows?	[reply]
Re: Re: Switching Between Development and Production Environments by Melly (Chaplain) on Oct 07, 2003 at 09:02 UTC
Well, I wouldn't replace my win machine, but I don't really have any excuse for not setting up a linux box to act as a development environment/firewall/etc. That aside, I doubt that I'd want to implement the kind of path-structures one typically comes across on an ISP's CGI-server (OT) IMHO the world would be a happy shiny place if all desktops were windows, and all servers were linux, BWTFDIK? Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk	[reply]

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