why would you do ＊NIX development on anything other than the actual kit the code is going to be running on? I understand this to mean that you think that the d

why would you do ＊NIX development on anything other than the actual kit the code is going to be running on? I understand this to mean that you think that the dev environment should be identical to the production environment. Am I misunderstanding? Assuming I'm understanding you correctly, no, I don't think what you said and what I expressed are the same at all. A developer (or development team), probably has (and should have) access to all of these environments for testing, but likely does development in the one they're most comfortable with. If you are saying that development in a different environment is okay, but a dev should do testing in a production-equivalent environment, then we agree. I don't see that distinction in what you've written. If I'm misunderstanding or misrepresenting what you're saying, please do correct me, as that's not my intent.