Automatix and Ultamatix discussion thread

[steveydoteu]

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/99905.html

Little more needs to be said.

[cardinals_fan]

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/99905.html

Little more needs to be said.

Fail (ultamatix, not the link)

[bobbocanfly]

Some of that "code" is actually painful to read. Got to thank Matthew Garret to be brave enough to go through the whole of that source tree, I would have given myself a hernia laughing at some of it!

[scorp123]

Some of that "code" is actually painful to read.

Extremely!!

Got to thank Matthew Garret to be brave enough to go through the whole of that source tree

It borders on masochism ...

[scorp123]

A lot a changes went in to Ultamatix to make it safer than Automatix.

Still not safe enough it seems. The code is a horrible mess and it's a miracle it does not instantly break stuff.

[Mr. Picklesworth]

it's a miracle it does not instantly break stuff.

It does. Every time a shell script enters into a main loop and tries to present a user interface as a large end user application (as opposed to, say, Python or C# or Java), God kills a kitten. And breaks my heart.

[steveydoteu]

It does. Every time a shell script enters into a main loop and tries to present a user interface as a large end user application (as opposed to, say, Python or C# or Java), God kills a kitten. And breaks my heart.

Not the kittens!

[mjg59]

It does. Every time a shell script enters into a main loop and tries to present a user interface as a large end user application (as opposed to, say, Python or C# or Java), God kills a kitten. And breaks my heart.

To be fair to Ultamatix, the UI is all in Python. It calls out to shell for the package installation.