If your the installation instructions for your software are to clone the repo and build from source then fuck you!

I want to use the thing not tinker with it. Make it available on apt or something

Usually is as simple as

git clone "$URL"
cd "$REPO_NAME"
make
make install

But then again, if it's that simple, why not just release pre-built binaries?

@kescherRant exactly

@kescherRant *cries in openssl and libcurl for windows*

Yeah, this new OSS push from Microsoft is a little strange with build your own.

@xzvf
For A, that's where releasing (standalone) binaries (outside of repositories) comes in.

@xzvf Static binaries tho

@xzvf ...does not always increase by a lot.

@xzvf And then there are projects where the source is available but good luck building it lmao

I love when they do this. Especially when they don't maintain a stable branch and dynamically link libraries that you are just expected to have. Hours of debugging fun to be had!

Of course the system already has libyaml 0.6.5, why wouldn't it?! And if it isn't there, I'm sure they will figure it out!