[ILUG-BOM] feedback on gnu-khata (Rony)

[Surya Pratap]

   Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

On Friday 22 May 2009 00:09:24 Rony wrote:


I am an end user of a lot of software. I do not care how difficult it is
to deploy. My criterion is that it should work and work well. That is, it
should do what I want it to do.



Difficulty in deployment gets prominent when recovering crashed systems
or performing some rescue operation.


software that works and works well does not crash


   Reminds me of one of Murphy's laws
   "Anyone who designs anything foolproof has obviously underestimated
   the ingenuity of fools"
   If I understand correctly, crashes and rescue operations are different
   from deployment in the simple sense
   that deployment deals with setup of the software and its environment,
   whereas crash recovery and rescue
   deals with data management.
   hence, deployment in case of crashed system will still be snapshotting
   the corrupted system for recovery and
   and factory reset of the software system. Import of base
   environment/user settings will be a boon in this
   scenario.
   just my peanut worth of thought ;)
   Regards
   Surya Pratap