> 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.
