Re: Install Script Feedback

Steve:

Thanks for the kind words.

I have no problem with the attribution as it is. I appreciate those that
have gone before and have shared what they learned in the process. I did a
lot of "software archaeology" in my career and have seen good and bad
documentation and I guess starting out in 1975 fixing a 150,000 line
assembly language energy control center package, I tend to over comment.
Always leave it better than you found it...

Until the next question.....

James

p.s. Man U vs. Chelsea today!

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Steve Cookson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  Hi James,
>
> Firstly it's a really very cool script.
>
> The comments are excellent and I don't know that I can any longer claim
> authorship of it, I think you should put your own name and author and say
> something like:
>
> "Based on a script provided by Steve Cookson" or something.  My script too
> would have been based on a script by Mark Dootson.
>
> But it's really the logging and filtering that make it stand out, which
> would work on anything.
>
> Thanks for everything.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve.
>
>
>
>
> On 26/10/14 23:25, James Lynes wrote:
>
>   Hi Steve:
>
>  Here is hopefully the final version of the script!
>
>  I finally found/figured out how to do the logging the way that I wanted
> and I commented out the clean-up section as the default configuration.
>
>  James
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Steve Cookson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>  Hi James,
>>
>> Very nice.  I ran it on my PC.
>>
>> I often thought about why I didn't do the whole install script in Perl.
>>
>> It just seemed too large a task, especially the error checking.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Steve.
>>
>>
>> On 24/10/14 23:47, James Lynes wrote:
>>
>>   Hi Steve:
>>
>>  Came up with a short script to list the directories effected.
>>
>>  The list I sent you before had been manually generated.
>>
>>  Still working on logging options.
>>
>>  James
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Steve Cookson <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 23-10-2014 15:01, James Lynes wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> This approach is probably safer than just the warning note that I put
>>>> in, but the list of files to be deleted is 21 printed pages, so it may not
>>>> be practical to have that scroll across the screen. You couldn't really
>>>> review it.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Could you not just show the directories, like you did to me?
>>>
>>> Steve.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>