[rabbitmq-discuss] Generating a Rabbitmq release

Fri Apr 13 12:35:03 BST 2012

Are you serious? I mean… if you want to disagree with me I'm OK with that.
But there's no need to come up with that kind of sarcasm.

Alvaro

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Matthew Sackman <matthew at rabbitmq.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:11:12PM +0200, Alvaro Videla wrote:
> > Do you see where I want to go with this approach?
>
> Indeed. In fact, what would be better would be if we just produced a
> live CD or something, including an entire operating system which people
> could just pop in and boot off. Or maybe even just dedicated hardware -
> just plug it into your network, power it on, and it's all there. Of
> course, there'd be a fractional increase in maintenance burden -
> providing security fixes and updates for an entire OS or even computer
> might turn out to be more involved than just for Rabbit itself, but the
> ease of use for end users would be vastly improved.
>
> Actually, taking this to its logical conclusion, one might consider even
> the existence of such hardware to be annoying - couldn't someone else
> take care of even that? Starting to sound an awful lot like the sort of
> thing that cloud foundary provides.
>
> Students will waste vastly more time on facebook and twitter each day
> than it takes to compile erlang. If learning how tool chains and
> compilation of software works is deemed unimportant, then I would
> suggest you migrate to something much closer to cloud foundary where the
> administrative burden is almost entirely removed.
>
> Matthew
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