Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made

Re:Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've... by jasonhansel on Saturday December 04, 2021 @11:03PM (#29446600)

IMHO real answer isn't to use "go get" instead of "pipx install"; the answer is to use Go to build statically-linked binaries and then to distribute those binaries with an OS-level, language-agnostic package manager (e.g. Homebrew or apt-get).

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Re:Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've... by da39a3ee on Sunday December 05, 2021 @06:21AM (#29448453)

Why do you need a package manager if you have a statically linked executable? Can't you just save it in ~/bin and have that in PATH? (Users who can't do that shouldn't be using CLI would be the argument I guess.)

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Re:Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've... by afarrell on Sunday December 05, 2021 @07:48AM (#29448869)

So that people can install and update the tools via the same habits they’ve already learned.

> Users who can’t do that shouldn’t be using CLI

Users who can do that will still find it an odd departure from convention.

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