I accidentally used YAML.parse instead of JSON.parse and it worked

Re:I accidentally used YAML.parse instead of JSON.parse and ... by nrclark on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:10AM (#30057133)

A note to readers: it's not always a good idea to put automated software installation in a place that users don't expect it.

I've seen that kind of approach cause a ton of issues the moment that the software was used in a different environment than the author expected.

It's much better IMO to fail with a message about how to install the missing dependency.

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Re:I accidentally used YAML.parse instead of JSON.parse and ... by dheera on Monday January 24, 2022 @06:59PM (#30065929)

This is why there should be a way to automatically install software into a sandboxed location, e.g. a virtualenv.

Considering we are having software drive cars today it should be trivial and I would say even arguably expected that software should be able to autonomously "figure out" how to run itself and avoid conflicts with other software since that's a trivial task in comparison to navigating city streets.

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