On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 1:37:48 AM UTC+1, Tyler Compton wrote: > > > I was quite happy that the era of executable "installers" died once we > > got package managers. > > This seems to come from a purely Linux perspective. I suspect that people > who use Linux are quite a bit less likely to benefit from this solution > anyway, because most Linux users are used to setting environment variables > and installing from tarballs. The era of executable installers has not died > on Windows or on Mac. > > > If something is to be improved, perhaps the > > quality of packages for various distributions could be improved > > instead. That is what the users want anyway, to use their distro > > package manager. > > Trying to improve every distro's Go version is a substantially more > difficult problem, and even worse, it's a bureaucratic one. I think it > would be a lot more productive to spend that time working on the technical > problem of security than giving up and tackling a much harder one. > > On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 4:49 PM Florin Pățan <flori...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The idea is good but: >> - it needs to modify the path to add GOROOT/bin and GOPATH/bin to it >> - it should allow for multiple versions of Go to be installed >> simultaneously (including 1.x.y vs 1.x.z versions) >> - it should change the PATH on all three OSes regardless of the shell >> used, which is the hardest part I guess (as this is the part that trips >> over most of the people, along with the GOPATH requirement) >> >> Thank you. >> >> -- >> 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > I speak from the experience of trying to help people get Go running on Linux, macOS and Windows, this is a terribly frustrating step and unknown for most of them.
Please don't dismiss this based on what you think but rather on actual facts. I can show you countless questions that come up in Slack on: how do I install this and people being frustrated with the setup process. -- 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.
