Re: how can i hate it? i can't even install it.

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From: Arthur Bergman
Subject: Re: how can i hate it? i can't even install it.
Date: 10:44 on 19 Aug 2003
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 12:01  am, mjinks@xxxxxxxx.xxx wrote:

>
> Maybe it's my fault.  Maybe I'm just a luddite who doesn't see the
> advantage in having more and more Unix software act more and more like
> Windows software, with individual quirks requiring knowledgeable humans
> spending their time clicking "OK" over, and over, and over, and over,
> and over, and over, and over again.  I'm learning though.  I typed "and
> over" manually each time, rather than having vi repeat for me, because
> I'm a get-along-with-others kind of guy, and if that's the trend, then
> dammit I'm gonna fit in.
>
>

mmmmmmmmm, I could just feel the intense hate all the way over the pond 
to London! Why are installers and installing software such a pain, why 
does all package systems suck, why do you get interactive shell scripts 
everywhere, I am ready to buy your explanation that people writing 
installation software are sadists. Maybe we should just be lucky that 
we don't need to fire up X and press a randomly appearing button after 
every stage in the install process.

And now I go back to writing a new build system for us that will just 
produce a self contained tar.gz and the software should auto configure 
itself on startup! That means that I will most likely hate m4 and 
autoconf a bit more soonish.

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