robin hates software: OpenNMS

• From: Robin Stephenson
  Date: 16:43 on 06 Jun 2007
  Subject: OpenNMS
  
  I've just wasted two man days trying to figure out why this benighted piece of 
  software is sending duplicate alerts.  Unfortunately, for some reason, it seems 
  to be hard (maybe even impossible without starting from scratch) to locate the 
  cause of the problem.  Let's see:
  
  Lines of Code
  XML (481105)   <-- most of these lines are enormously long of course
  Java (154324)
  JSP (20879)
  Shell Script (5360)
  SQL (3409)
  C (1492)
  Perl (1349)
  Python (1160)
  JavaScript (855)
  Lisp (412)
  	
  numbers from http://krugle.com/kse/projects/Qd1CNfi
  
  
  

• From: Peter da Silva
  Date: 16:56 on 06 Jun 2007
  Subject: Re: OpenNMS
  
  OpenNMS.
  
  Oh my god, is that hateful piece of crap still around? Does it still 
  need a non-standard Java install?
  
  It took me there weeks to get a set of packages and install scripts 
  that were clean enough to let customers install that on Red Hat. If I 
  couldn't use the FreeBSD ports system to figure out what a working copy 
  looked like I'd probably STILL be trying to get it set up.
  
  
  
  

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