Re: [go-nuts] Go one-line installer

2017-08-02 Thread roger peppe
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: > >> 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

Re: [go-nuts] Go one-line installer

2017-08-02 Thread Jan Mercl
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

Re: [go-nuts] Go one-line installer

2017-08-02 Thread Florin Pățan
On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 11:34:33 AM UTC+1, Jan Mercl wrote: > > 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

Re: [go-nuts] Go one-line installer

2017-08-02 Thread Jan Mercl
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

Re: [go-nuts] Go one-line installer

2017-08-02 Thread Florin Pățan
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

Re: [go-nuts] Go one-line installer

2017-08-01 Thread Tyler Compton
> 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

[go-nuts] Go one-line installer

2017-08-01 Thread Florin Pățan
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

[go-nuts] Go one-line installer

2017-08-01 Thread Steve Francia
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