That's interesting - I just received a request for ShutIt to work with Python3. Regarding failure, ShutIt drops to a shell on error (if there's a tty), so you

That's interesting - I just received a request for ShutIt to work with Python3. Regarding failure, ShutIt drops to a shell on error (if there's a tty), so you can correct manually before continuing (pause_point). These can also be triggered directly for debugging purposes. I don't like YAML for anything complicated. The bash scripts I saw embedded in YAML felt wrong. Why not just use shell? Env-agnosticism (eg 'install' packages rather than yum/apt) was built in because it was created in a bi-OS env (ubuntu and CentOS).