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