[pyre]

Ha. Wait until you need to run a build of shared Perl codebase against unit tests in all of the dependent codebases... but some of those codebases compile and run C (or C++) programs... and some of those codebases depend on conflicting versions of GCC!

"If we hit the bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -- Zap Brannigan

> forget coworkers that scribble droppings all over the filesystem, and assume certain services will never coexist

I think this tends to be less of a problem than the desire to have a build artifact that can be reliably deployed to multiple servers, rather than having the "build" process and "deploy" process hopelessly intertwined with each other.