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When did piping curl output to a shell become an acceptable installation method?

• mypalmike 5y ago
  It seemed clever to do such things in around 2010.
• awinter-py 5y ago
  makes sense for homebrew maybe because homebrew is 'the missing package manager' -- you do this for HB because there's no package mgr underneath it's not like npm / pypi are that much better (anyone can post), but at least they have a paper trail. but until we have an open institutional review culture for OSS, everything is dangerous.
  • oceanplexian 5y ago
    Homebrew could have bundled a Mac Installer and signed it, you know, the officially supported and documented mechanism that Apple gives you to install software. Instead they decided to re-invent the wheel, which is going to bite them every time Apple releases some new security or sandboxing feature.