Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
by mceachen on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:03PM
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I enjoyed docker compose as well (enough to use it for PhotoStructure), but was bit by breaking changes even when I had specified a version in my docker-compose.yml.
It meant that a bunch of my beta users suddenly had broken PhotoStructure configurations because their docker-compose implementation had received a minor update. Why require a version to your configuration file and not increment it on breaking changes?
I ended up tearing out the script that helped people create their own docker-compose.yml file, and replaced the installation instructions with an annotated call to `docker run`.
And don't get me started on how janky it is to update existing containers to new images without docker-compose: there seems to only be one third-party tool to assist with this automatically (lighthouse), but is essentially abandoned. I'd love to be wrong about this, please point me to other solutions if they exist!
It meant that a bunch of my beta users suddenly had broken PhotoStructure configurations because their docker-compose implementation had received a minor update. Why require a version to your configuration file and not increment it on breaking changes?
I ended up tearing out the script that helped people create their own docker-compose.yml file, and replaced the installation instructions with an annotated call to `docker run`.
And don't get me started on how janky it is to update existing containers to new images without docker-compose: there seems to only be one third-party tool to assist with this automatically (lighthouse), but is essentially abandoned. I'd love to be wrong about this, please point me to other solutions if they exist!