Carl Lowenstein wrote:
At one company, we had *hordes* of scripts that did what you said and
hard encoded the paths. We had entire directories which had been around
for 5 years simply to support the links to enable those scripts.
Eventually, I got fed up with debugging this network of links on a
semi-weekly basis for my engineering team.
Not sure whether those brittle symbolic links were made of straw, to
support the straw-man argument.
Main Entry: straw man
Function: noun
1 : a weak or imaginary opposition (as an argument or adversary) set up
only to be easily confuted
2 : a person set up to serve as a cover for a usually questionable
transaction
If that your implication is that my experience is fictitious, I take
exception to your implication.
Some of us live in the real world and inherit situations which are less
than ideal.
We also have to deal with a little known task known as "maintenance".
Unfortunately, most open source types somehow miss that. This leads to
the Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers development model.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
-a
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