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On the mac, you can: brew install magic-wormhole [1] And that covers 90% of the people that care. Granted I think you're right that software packaging and d

by bb88 9y ago

On the mac, you can: brew install magic-wormhole [1] And that covers 90% of the people that care. Granted I think you're right that software packaging and distribution is still generally broken in 2017, but that's a problem across the board. It's a problem with java, node.js, python, etc. [1] https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

vacri 9y ago
So... 'brew install rssh' is bad and kludgy, but 'brew install magic-wormhole' is easy and light? And hey, if you're not on a mac, you have to also install a bunch of other deps too. You probably shouldn't have tried to pad out your steps by taking a detour into package management.
- StavrosK 9y ago
  Honestly, even if I have both rssh and magic-wormhole installed already, just creating a new user that can read (some of) the filesystem is already orders of magnitudes more hassle.
- edraferi 9y ago
  Seems like you get to skip a lot of network configuration pain with magic-wormhole.
dagw 9y ago
And that covers 90% of the people that care Disagree. I don't know a single non-programmer with brew installed on their Mac, and non-programmers make up 90% of the people who have the most trouble copying files between two computers.
- bb88 9y ago
  And for those people there is dropbox, google drive, etc.
- philamonster 9y ago
  sysadmin here in MAD world using homebrew since Lion. First thing I did when I got in this morning was to pull out my personal MBP and install magic-wormhole.
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nolemurs 9y ago
So, this tool is intended for users of macs who are comfortable using a shell and use `brew`, but are not comfortable with `ssh`? I'm not even sure I see how this is much easier than ssh if you know the basics.