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On 18/09/2015 00:48, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 09/17/2015 05:13 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> Slightly OT, but the general idea of package management isn't hard. |
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>> Put the stuff you should have in a list, then compare what you should |
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>> have to what you do have. Go get and install what you don't have, then |
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>> make a record that you did it. |
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>> Everything needed to get these basics right has been known for 40 years |
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>> or more - fellows like Wirth and Dijkstra figured it all out way back when. |
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>> Sure, there's always modern stumbling blocks (like why we have subslots) |
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>> but that's extra to the essential basics. |
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>> So why oh why do the latest generation of wunderkinds (not) always get |
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>> it so completely WRONG? 3 runs to fetch all the deps? I suppose wget and |
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>> curl don't actually do what I think they do then.... |
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> Heavy on bad words and light on solutions, but it made me feel better: |
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> http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/motherfuckers_need_package_management.php |
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I read it, and now I also feel much better :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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