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• Wow... (Score:2)

  by Purdy (2383)

  That looks really neat, though it's hard to follow when you don't know the criteria that pushes you from one state to the next. Such as the root_user state... I just didn't follow what happened after that state and why.
  
  Maybe it was your example, though. Neat stuff, though!
  
  Peace,
  
  Jason
  • Re:Wow... (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    Part of the issue with any state machine is that the criteria can be confusing to an outsider if they don't know the business rules. In this case, the state machine tracks some of the dependencies for setting up Bricolage [bricolage.cc] on PostgreSQL. The "root user" state simply means "if we have the Postgres root user, we can install. If not, check to see if we have a normal user and, if so, check to see if they can do everything necessary for the install. When I was using a bunch of nested if/else statements, it wa
• permissions check (Score:2)

  by wickline (135)

  was the code in progress at that point, or is it expected that check_permissions never leads to fail?
  • Re:permissions check (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    It was code in progress. I had a dummy "never fail" state set up while I was figuring out the best way to proceed.