At home on my Arch i really prefer pacman for everything and only as a last resort do I ever exec any curlable installer. The problem is usually that they don't get properly updated and the packagemanager anyway pulls in Go since it is a dependency for something else and it is a mess with two or more installations.
On my work Mac I have only ever installed one thing, "Oh my zsh", using curl everything else have been installers or Homebrew. My 2¢ I can see this to be beneficial when you pull up a VM and wants to quickly and easily install but for Linux in general I am not sure. ons 2 aug. 2017 kl 09:15 skrev Aram Hăvărneanu <ara...@mgk.ro>: > > most Linux users are used to setting environment variables and > > installing from tarballs. > > No, most Linux users are used to installing from package managers. > Unless you were referring to installing Go in particular, where I > conjecture that most Linux users who don't use some package manager > to install Go, are installing from source. > > > The era of executable installers has not died on Windows or on Mac. > > I can't speak for Windows, but macOS (or OS X, or Mac OS X) never > had executable installers like Windows had. It had .pkg installers, > which are not the same thing at all, and even those are pretty rare > today, restricted mostly to software that has to install kernel > components and such. Most programs install by copying from zip/dng > files or by installing from the App Store (a package manager). > > Mac users most certainly aren't used to executable installers. > > > I think it would be a lot more productive to spend that time working > > on the technical problem > > The problem you are mentioning is the halting problem. There is no way > reliably set configuration variables without solving the halting > problem. > > I do not consider time spent on the halting problem to be productive > time. Sorry. > > > -- > Aram Hăvărneanu > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
