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The best installation experience is no installation. My favorite: Single binary Hashicorp Nomad, the same binary for client and server! Runs without sudo, stra
by ukuina 3y ago
The best installation experience is no installation.
My favorite: Single binary Hashicorp Nomad, the same binary for client and server! Runs without sudo, straight out of /tmp.
- fuzztester 3y agoBetter than the best: No installation, but everyone runs the same single binary straight from the shared local area network drive. :) Naysayers: don't worry, bandwidth isn't an issue, it's a high-speed LAN, and the wire won't catch fire, even if it is FireWire. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394
- fuzztester 3y agoBetter than the better than the best: JNLP https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/deploymentInDepth/jnlp.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/deploymen...
- smashed 3y agoYou are trolling. JNLP still sends shivers down my back. It is still in use to this day. Hugh.. It sucked when it was new and still does just as bad.
- fuzztester 3y agoNo, I was not trolling. Joking, about the LAN suggestion (although the method does work, it was there from Novell Netware days), but not trolling about the JNLP suggestion. I genuinely thought it would work. I stopped using Java probably a bit before JNLP came out, so never checked it out. What sucked about JNLP? I can google, but what was your experience with it?
- psd1 3y agoIME, managing runtimes. Not GP, but: Oh, JRE too old? Link to download the latest? Now it accepts the JRE, but the JRE refuses it with security errors. So you turn those checks off and the jnlp runs but crashes with an obscure error. So you try another JRE until you find a version that works. While doing this, you interact with Oracle, at all times with the fear of their lawyers, until you decide to use a foss runtime. Now you are managing runtimes from different vendors with different configs and locations. Write once, troubleshoot everywhere.
- fuzztester 3y agoOkay. Applets also had some of those issues, much pre-Oracle takeover of Sun and Java. Never used them much myself, although they were a potentially cool idea.
- tomcam 3y agoTerrible sysadmin here. I don’t understand the downvotes?
- fuzztester 3y ago>Terrible sysadmin here. Heh, yeah :) But they call him a moderator around here. >I don’t understand the downvotes? Neither does anyone else, usually, except the downvoters and their tribe :) But they think everyone else should think like them, so they downvote those who do not. Actually, I do understand, or think I do. People are being lazy, by downvoting as a quick fly-by reflex action, instead of spending even a little time thoughtfully commenting - at least, many of them seem to be doing that.
- tomcam 3y agoHeavens I meant I’m the terrible sysadmin! Took me this long to get the joke!
- fuzztester 3y agoHa ha, no worries, it happens. I'm a tubelight too sometimes :)
- klysm 3y agoI don’t think the naysayers are worried about bandwidth
- fuzztester 3y agoYou didn't get that I was kidding? See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37319515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37319515
- klysm 3y agoLol I wasn’t sure - but I’m glad you were