Hi Mark
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 13:14 -0400, m.e.grimm wrote:
my rant is as follows
when making a request to have pd-extended 0.43.1 installed on the teaching station i get:
"Mark:
For obvious reasons, we won't install a beta release of software in a production environment.
The current latest production release will be installed."
This kind of know-it-all behaviour baffles me. Unfortunately, it sounds like it's not even worth trying to explain yourself when getting such answers and also like they're hiding their ignorance behind some pseudo best practices ("beta" on "production".... uuuuh _sounds_ dangerous!!!)
which im fine with 042.5 but this is just more annoying than anything else.
Definitely.
am I alone or do others on this list in Universities battle with IT on a daily basis? i am suspecting im not alone.....
I also would assume that you're not alone. I happen to have a job in the IT of a local university and people don't seem to hate us, luckily. But then, computers in artist labs are not treated equally with computers from administration that potentially contain sensitive data. Also lab computers are separated from administration computers in terms of network topology. This gives a certain degree of freedom for what can be installed on a lab computer. You might argue that your IT is not doing their job correctly when they consider every machine to be a super-critical high-security super-sensitive high-importance "production machine".
is it the word "BETA" that is so bothersome? what is a "production environment"? am i not producing something?
I wonder where they saw the word beta. I just installed Pd-extended from http://blinky.at.or.at:8888/auto-build/latest/ and whether the build nor "help" -> "About Pd" contains the word 'beta'. Probably you tell them you found a "proper" release.
Roman