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Looks really cool, but there was no instructions on how to install it. I would recommend putting an installation guide in your readme, and it being a full inst

by Aicy 5y ago

Looks really cool, but there was no instructions on how to install it. I would recommend putting an installation guide in your readme, and it being a full installation guide. I followed the link to your manual and then it told me to install your tool using a tool called "cargo" with no reference on how to install cargo. At this point I gave up. Lazy, maybe, but for a convenience tool like this I want a convenient installation.

childintime 5y ago
Looks like you need to install the Rust programming language and compile it. It worked for me. Not sure if I like the installation method. It seems the executable is portable though.
loxias 5y ago
I agree with all your points. Only diff is I got to the point where it said I needed "cargo", On a whim, I typed "aptitude install cargo", and it did something. Now waiting for the >1GB source repo to clone to see if it works.... ;)
conradludgate 5y ago
Cargo is Rust's build tool/package manager and can be installed easily using rustup. But I would probably suggest the difftastic maintainers add some prebuilt binaries to the releases (I have an example workflow here if anyone from there is interested https://github.com/conradludgate/wordle/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yaml https://github.com/conradludgate/wordle/blob/main/.github/wo...)
- jwilk 5y ago
  What's rustup and how do I install it?
  - asicsp 5y ago
    See https://rustup.rs/ https://rustup.rs/
loxias 5y ago
I think it's wonderful that there's an explosion of new exciting languages, it can only improve the quality of all our tools. I for one am looking forward to replacing my eons of MATLAB experience with Julia. But I wish there was more of a convention in the F/OSS community that if your software isn't written in something universal (C, C++, shell and maybe python), then it also comes with a container of all that's necessary to run it. It's frustrating to pollute my nicely packaged managed system with hundreds of locally installed python modules just to run one tool. Or, in this case, backport and rebuild a language specific build tool simply to compile. :)
- andai 5y ago
  >shell >universal * laughs in Windows, then cries *
  - loxias 5y ago
    I used to straddle the two worlds, maintained and supported a multi-site AD domain with AFS integration for user $HOME and some sort of unholy LDAP/kerberos bridge for login. About once every year or two I'll miss something about the way Windows does things, compared to normal (meaning "linux"). Like the NTFS permissions model, that's cool. But it's just once a year :) And the last time I was deep in windows was win7, whenever that was. I tried to use a win10 machine and gave up. Besides, I thought the big new feature in modern windows was that WSL improved to the point you can run unix tools! ;)
    - Spivak 5y ago
      > and some sort of unholy LDAP/kerberos bridge for login It's really not that bad, the AD-IPA cross-forest trust is really solid as is the native sssd-ad integration if IPA is too much. Honestly I can't really imagine it any other way now, so much work has been put into AD support that it's actually the best login experience on Linux at the moment. OpenLDAP is definitely showing its age -- dgmr I use it for all my personal infra because it's free and my use-cases are dead simple but we got to delete so much bespoke code after migrating off it at work.
gkfasdfasdf 5y ago
This method worked for me. No root required. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842720

by Aicy 5y ago

childintime 5y ago

Looks like you need to install the Rust programming language and compile it. It worked for me. Not sure if I like the installation method. It seems the executable is portable though.

loxias 5y ago

I agree with all your points. Only diff is I got to the point where it said I needed "cargo", On a whim, I typed "aptitude install cargo", and it did something. Now waiting for the >1GB source repo to clone to see if it works.... ;)

conradludgate 5y ago

Cargo is Rust's build tool/package manager and can be installed easily using rustup. But I would probably suggest the difftastic maintainers add some prebuilt binaries to the releases (I have an example workflow here if anyone from there is interested https://github.com/conradludgate/wordle/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yaml https://github.com/conradludgate/wordle/blob/main/.github/wo...)

jwilk 5y ago
What's rustup and how do I install it?
- asicsp 5y ago
  See https://rustup.rs/ https://rustup.rs/

loxias 5y ago

I think it's wonderful that there's an explosion of new exciting languages, it can only improve the quality of all our tools. I for one am looking forward to replacing my eons of MATLAB experience with Julia. But I wish there was more of a convention in the F/OSS community that if your software isn't written in something universal (C, C++, shell and maybe python), then it also comes with a container of all that's necessary to run it. It's frustrating to pollute my nicely packaged managed system with hundreds of locally installed python modules just to run one tool. Or, in this case, backport and rebuild a language specific build tool simply to compile. :)

andai 5y ago
>shell >universal * laughs in Windows, then cries *
- loxias 5y ago
  I used to straddle the two worlds, maintained and supported a multi-site AD domain with AFS integration for user $HOME and some sort of unholy LDAP/kerberos bridge for login. About once every year or two I'll miss something about the way Windows does things, compared to normal (meaning "linux"). Like the NTFS permissions model, that's cool. But it's just once a year :) And the last time I was deep in windows was win7, whenever that was. I tried to use a win10 machine and gave up. Besides, I thought the big new feature in modern windows was that WSL improved to the point you can run unix tools! ;)
  - Spivak 5y ago
    > and some sort of unholy LDAP/kerberos bridge for login It's really not that bad, the AD-IPA cross-forest trust is really solid as is the native sssd-ad integration if IPA is too much. Honestly I can't really imagine it any other way now, so much work has been put into AD support that it's actually the best login experience on Linux at the moment. OpenLDAP is definitely showing its age -- dgmr I use it for all my personal infra because it's free and my use-cases are dead simple but we got to delete so much bespoke code after migrating off it at work.

gkfasdfasdf 5y ago

This method worked for me. No root required. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842720