On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 20:33 -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:07:57AM +0000, Bob Eager wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:28:25 -0700 > > Craig Hartnett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Thanks, but wow, that seems unnecessarily complicated and > > > time-consuming. > > Computer people are sometimes like mathematicians: we like to rely > on tools that we already know. :)
Good point, Graham, and that explains why I was mostly looking at the shell scripts myself. I'm not proficient in Python, and know nothing about Haskell and Go. Like you, I hadn't heard of parallel, and my "time-consuming" comment was more about how I operate when I learn about something new. Bob, I apologise that my comment sounded dismissive. > As the old joke goes, Good joke. :) > There's a few reasons why you might not want to use one of those > helper scripts: > - you're paranoid that the script authors might have added a > backdoor, and you're not confident enough about language X to > check the script yourself. > Since Tarsnap is software for the truly paranoid, we definitely > respect such concerns! > - you enjoy crafting tools yourself and tinkering with your > computer. The second of those is more applicable to me. Craig
