Jeffs wrote to vk3jed <=-

Hello Tony,

On 12/02/17, Tony Langdon said the following...

I'm happy with g00r00's decision, and I do my own additional layer of idiot proofing, which is specific to my system. :)

I would be totally happy with the Mystic install utility checking the directory that is specified. And IF there are any Mystic files that preexist then to make note of that fact and only overwrite the
executables in the Mystic root directory and the scripts directory.

Yeah, for those of us who don't have automation, that would save the tedious manual copying (the reason I wrote my script in the first place). But now, my script does more than simply copy the files, so I'll probably keep doing what I'm doing, unless g00r00 gives me a compelling reason to change my processes.
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With the frequent updates recently I too have setup a bash script to automate the update process.

Cool. :)


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g00r00 wrote to vk3jed <=-

The trap here is if someone does this, then doesn't do any manual steps required, they end up with a broken system too. I do have a script that

Exactly. It would pop up a box and display "upgrade.txt" contents afterwards, but I worry that even that won't stop people from not
paying attention!

LOL, good idea, you can only go so far in making something foolproof. Fools are very resourceful! :D


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