It’s still a major PITA to install & maintain many open source tools, like curl, Ffmpeg, wget etc. The tool chain is hit and miss. Recompiling Ffmpeg with h26

It’s still a major PITA to install & maintain many open source tools, like curl, Ffmpeg, wget etc. The tool chain is hit and miss. Recompiling Ffmpeg with h265 support is one command on MacOS. I just recently had to recompile a R package that depended on some fairly obscure third party libraries. No problem, just a couple of brew install commands. I’d hate to think how much manual work it would have taken to line up all the dependencies for that in Windows. Likely I’d have just given up.