[ Thanks to jhansonxi for this link.
]
“What’s next? Nothing. This was intended to be a one
week feasibility study but suffered from a ridiculous amount of
feature creep. Between the earlier draft scripts and command-line
tests I know it’s possible to do but text processing in shell
scripts is tedious and I don’t have the time to finish it. The
scripts are ugly, broken, and can’t handle all possible problems. I
do like cats so I made it a point to eliminate cat abuse but I left
a lot of dysfunctional grep|sed marriages since reducing them is
time consuming and the extra processes give my idle Phenom cores
something to do. There’s a lot of arrays and case statements. I
didn’t follow any column limits either. Because this was a
work-in-progress I also discarded the Unixy notion of minimal
feedback – my scripts write entire novels to the terminal. There
are a lot of comments, especially in the unfinished portions of
wineappinstall.sh (which is guaranteed to not work). I didn’t even
begin implementing the integrated multimedia help styled after
0verkill. Instead, this pre-alpha work includes a bonus pack of
bugs. I don’t think the scripts can fail in such a way as to wipe
out your filesystems and install Vista but I’m not guaranteeing
they won’t either. This mess was developed on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy
Heron).”