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Yep, in case of Linux the 'it's OSS. Download the tar.gz configure --enable-debug and deal with it' attitude hampered the development and use of something like
by blinkingled 6y ago
Yep, in case of Linux the 'it's OSS. Download the tar.gz configure --enable-debug and deal with it' attitude hampered the development and use of something like a Symbol Server.
Microsoft has had it since at least 2005 - that's the first Visual Studio release I remember using it with - so it might have exited before that. It's things like these that separate MS from all others - Engineering culture of having to give 2 shits about other people - OEMs, developers, corporate IT, partners and having the chops to effectively address it at scale within their Engineering teams.
- de_watcher 6y agoWhat are you talking about? Linux distros come with debug info packages.
- blinkingled 6y agoYeah I know - that's a more recent thing however and the attitude in the early days was what I was referring to. Oh and the debuginfo packages used to be and still are huge in size. Not sure if anything has changed most recently but the concept of lazy loading symbols from remote and storing only what you need locally is not something you can do with debuginfo packages.
- de_watcher 6y agoOh yes, the size is killing it. Our applications are not that big so the bandwidth use isn't completely insane, but I see the problem.