On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 17:07:01 +0300 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sb, 11 oct 14, 21:40:49, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > From my viewpoint, shellscripts were never intended to be big, huge > > programs. To me, they just glue together commands, and have a few > > rudimentary branching and looping constructs. > > Isn't that like buying IKEA furniture, Exactly! > but when you get home you > realise all those little plastic bags with screws and mounting pieces > are missing? Not similar, becase either the parts are there, or they're creatable with a few very basic tools (much easier to create files than screws). > I will say this: > > Any program that requires additional scripting just to get it > running is insufficiently advanced. > > (you can quote me on that) I can't argue with the preceding, because it's a belief, no more or less valid than my (very contradictory) belief. The best I could do is create a run script making program that asks you a few questions and writes the script for you. Which, if it would bring more people into the daemontools fold, isn't a half bad idea. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141012143419.10361...@mydesq2.domain.cxm