> 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 <florinpa...@gmail.com> 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+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.
