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Re:Gemini CLI by MobiusHorizons on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:06PM (#44378838)
How so? Doesn’t it also make updates pretty easy? Have the precompiled binary know how to download the new version. Sure there are considerations for backing up the old version, but it’s not much work, and frees you up from being tied to one specific ecosystem
Re:Gemini CLI by wiseowise on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:33AM (#44384739)
No, it doesn’t. At work everything is locked down and you either need to have separate mechanism to deliver updates or use pip.
Re:Gemini CLI by berkes on Thursday June 26, 2025 @06:23AM (#44385949)
That's not an argument against the difficulty of "updating a binary file" vs "updating via pip", it's merely addressing what your work deems important and possible.

(Aside from the fact that allowing "use pip" completely defeats the purpose of any other of these mechanisms, so it's a poster-child example of security-theater)