Glenn Carver asked:
>Do
>the major vendors such as Fujitus, Absoft etc support both Debian and
>RedHat? By support I mean many aspects such as, installing the software,
>running, updating (for instance do some manufacturers only provide RH
>rpms?), what's the debugging environment like?
Speaking as a vendor (NAG), we support both Debian and RedHat equally.
(Actually, the product should run on practically any Linux distribution.)
We do not provide RPMs at all, we provide a tarball with (several)
installation scripts. This is pretty simple and seems to work well
enough in practice - the installation scripts allow you to install to
any directory. We do this both for initial installation and for updates.
[The upside of "no rpms" is that it is simple and should work everywhere;
the downside of "no rpms" is that there isn't the "package management" stuff;
in practice we've had little or no demand for it - perhaps because our
"dependencies" are not particularly complex?]
For debugging we provide dbx90 (a command-line front-end to gdb), which
is pretty basic but contains the essential functionality. Definitely our
weak point compared to e.g. CVF on WNT, but I don't know how much better/worse
than the other Linux products.
Cheers,
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...........................Malcolm Cohen, NAG Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
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