Andrei POPESCU 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, but when you get home you realise all those little plastic bags with screws and mounting pieces are missing? I will say this: Any program that requires additional scripting just to get it running is insufficiently advanced. (you can quote me on that)
Maybe if you're in a desktop environment. If you're managing servers and services, one tends to wire together multiple services, often in environment-specific ways - and it's very common to write "glue" scripts.
Seems to me that a big part of the issue is increasing use of Debian (and Linux in general) on the desktop. It seems like desktop support is driving more and more design decisions.
Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra