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And what alternative do you suggest? Spamming the download page with 100 different instruction links for each OS and version, where each download page just link
by FooBarWidget 14y ago
And what alternative do you suggest? Spamming the download page with 100 different instruction links for each OS and version, where each download page just links to a tar.gz/deb/rpm that still can execute arbitrary code?
- anthonyb 14y agoThere's only three if you check the script out - Mac, .rpm and .deb. Is it really that hard to set up packages for three things? Depending on what's in there, it could also just be a node package.
- FooBarWidget 14y agoDo you know what you're saying? Three binary packages. Three different systems that you have to learn separately. Have you ever made a .deb or .rpm, let alone a YUM or APT repository? The documentation is horrible. The .deb documentation mentions all kinds of abbreviations and obscure commands... fakeroot, autobuilder, pbuilder, dh_make, devscripts... good luck with that if you don't even use Debian as your primary OS. RPMs are slightly easier though by much. And this is only about generating the .debs/.rpms themselves. Good luck learning all the complex packaging rules and dependency specification rules. What if you don't have a Mac, do you have to fork over $1500+ to buy one just so you can create a .pkg?