06-26-2016
A few thoughts on - not necessarily exhaustive answers to - your questions:
1. "good enough" for me means: fulfills its purpose to satisfaction. Does it do the installation (on a sunny day)? If yes: sounds "good enough". Is it fail-safe? Not on first sight. Do you want the reason why it fails, and does it show that: no, so "not good enough" on rainy days. Any action to repair a failure: No.
My experience is it takes way more than half the programming effort to do error checking and handling. Which immediately leads to the second question:
2. While applications may give a plethora of exit codes indicating what went wrong and how severe this was, you're ignoring this diversity, only testing the result being zero, if not treat this as a failure, and quit with an exit code 1. So your failed function may be a bit too simplistic.
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rant-import(1) rant-import rant-import(1)
NAME
Rant - Flexible, Ruby based make
SYNOPSIS
The rant-import command creates a monolithic rant script tailored to the needs of your project and thus removes the dependency on an Rant
installation (but of course one person needs an Rant installation to run rant-import).
Run the command with the --help option to get a brief help message:
% rant-import --help
Probably the easiest way to create your monolithic rant script is with the --auto option:
% rant-import --auto ant
This will write a monolithic rant script to the file ant in the current directory. To determine which plugins and imports your project is
using, it performs step 2 of the rant command as described in doc/rant.rdoc, which means that it loads the Rantfile in the current direc-
tory.
That one command should be enough:
% ruby ant
This script has the same behaviour as the rant command. Distribute it with your project and nobody else but you needs an Rant installation.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information on Rant see: <http://make.rubyforge.org/>
<http://make.rubyforge.org/files/doc/rant-import_rdoc.html>
AUTHOR
Rant is by Stefan Lang
This package is maintained by Ralph Amissah
SEE
rant(1)
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