On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 15:52, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It is a fact. There is a lot of empirical proof for this. Scripts are > good for single purpose small cases. Once you want to deal with complex > problems, a script won't scale. Error handling isn't as sophisticated > for instance. I do not agree. A script can be as good with as good error-handling as its programmer wants it to be. Plus as someone said, a script is easier to fix (just edit it) compared to a compiled program (which by itself could introduce dependencies problems). Have you seen HP´s HPLIP installer in action? IT´s been a while since I had to run it but I remember it checked for everything before starting to works, things like "is cups available? check. What version? OK. is a USB device present? check." and so on, all to prevent the script from failing, and offering to download components when some required components were required but not available. (like I said, it´s been a while I think I was running Suse 9.0 back then, but the complexity and well done design of the HPLIP install script positively surprised me). So I´d say that your statement that scripts are somehow inferior solutions is a matter of opinion. Isn´t yum a big python script, after all?. FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
