Dev would get the thing working on their machine configured for a customer. We'd take their machine and put it in the server room, and use it as the server for that customer. Dev would get a new machine.
Yes, I know it's stupid. But if it's stupid and it works, it isn't stupid.
DLL Hell was real. Spending days trying to get the exact combination of runtimes and DLL's that made the thing spring into life wasn't fun, especially with a customer waiting and management breathing down our necks. This became the easiest option. We started speccing dev machines with half an eye on "this might end up in the server room".
nm -D is not hard. Debugging missing symbols isn't even that hard.
Biggest damn challenge I see is we've completely dropped the ball at educating people about how linkers, loaders, and dynamic library symbols work.
...and so people understand something here... I've transplanted/frankensteined userspaces that were completely hosed/disjoint into working before. In fact, every now and again I do it just to remain in practice. It's actually gotten to the point I don't even worry about dependency hell anymore. I just find the right version of the library/source and expand my archives just in case I need it down the road.
Dev would get the thing working on their machine configured for a customer. We'd take their machine and put it in the server room, and use it as the server for that customer. Dev would get a new machine.
Yes, I know it's stupid. But if it's stupid and it works, it isn't stupid.
DLL Hell was real. Spending days trying to get the exact combination of runtimes and DLL's that made the thing spring into life wasn't fun, especially with a customer waiting and management breathing down our necks. This became the easiest option. We started speccing dev machines with half an eye on "this might end up in the server room".