I assume he refers to npm/pip/cargo to be the multiple os option, not saying the last one is obviously better for multiple os. At least that has to be because that’s the only option that is os independent.
Of course it sucks because the essentially uncurated dependency trees result in either instability on updates, or missing updates. Of course also the natural OS updater won’t help you out with pip/cargo/npm, but it will help with apt, yum, snap, and flatpak.
I was talking about the other ones, but since you mention it, yeah, many people use Bash on Windows, from Git Bash which is part of Git on Windows, which pretty much any developer forced to use Windows will install in order to use Git.
Developers often prefer to have less interfaces to maintain when possible.
Gets the job done, but shoudn’t and isn’t intended for non-programmer end user.
I’m not mad at small programs or developers with not much time to setup a distribution pipeline, they should be praised for their work at the program itself. But different OSes have different places to unpack a program and this allows simple updates, we should respect that for consistency at user end. Expect it’s Windows, which is a unspecified mess anyway, let’s go and unpack everything raw on C:\ or into user directory.
You left “sudo” off that last frame.
The script will prompt you.
Blackarch be like
Some of those can be good if you want a single command to install on any OS.
Bash/Sh on Windows? And what’s so bad about 2-3 separate commands anyway?
I assume he refers to npm/pip/cargo to be the multiple os option, not saying the last one is obviously better for multiple os. At least that has to be because that’s the only option that is os independent.
Of course it sucks because the essentially uncurated dependency trees result in either instability on updates, or missing updates. Of course also the natural OS updater won’t help you out with pip/cargo/npm, but it will help with apt, yum, snap, and flatpak.
I was talking about the other ones, but since you mention it, yeah, many people use Bash on Windows, from Git Bash which is part of Git on Windows, which pretty much any developer forced to use Windows will install in order to use Git.
Developers often prefer to have less interfaces to maintain when possible.
Gets the job done, but shoudn’t and isn’t intended for non-programmer end user.
I’m not mad at small programs or developers with not much time to setup a distribution pipeline, they should be praised for their work at the program itself. But different OSes have different places to unpack a program and this allows simple updates, we should respect that for consistency at user end. Expect it’s Windows, which is a unspecified mess anyway, let’s go and unpack everything raw on C:\ or into user directory.