On 2 August 2017 at 12:16, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 12:47 PM Florin Pățan wrote:
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>> I would never put anyone to the trouble of compiling Go themselves, so
>> it's not clear why you are suggesting that.
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> From where comes the assumption that it's a trouble? I
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 12:47 PM Florin Pățan wrote:
> I would never put anyone to the trouble of compiling Go themselves, so
it's not clear why you are suggesting that.
>From where comes the assumption that it's a trouble? I was not suggesting
anything, but while we are at it, I think that insta
On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 11:34:33 AM UTC+1, Jan Mercl wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 12:27 PM Florin Pățan > wrote:
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> > 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 the
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 12:27 PM Florin Pățan wrote:
> 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 share what's frustrating and not clear about the step-by-step
instructio
On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 1:37:48 AM UTC+1, Tyler Compton wrote:
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> > I was quite happy that the era of executable "installers" died once we
> > got package managers.
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> This seems to come from a purely Linux perspective. I suspect that people
> who use Linux are quite a bit less likely to
> 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 en
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 th
Greetings Gophers,
I've been working on a "one line installer" for Go with Jess Frazelle and
Chris Broadfoot and we think it's ready to share a bit more broadly.
The installer is designed to both install Go as well as do the initial
configuration of setting up the right environment variables an
