“cross-platform” exe
lists windows, windows, and windows disguised as wine
Wine is a great emulator.
Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Gottem
Fun fact: The Windows executable format is originally based on an old Unix executable format.
Haha if im not mistaken this might be about that guy saying wtf github why no exe? I’m sure someone has the link.
I am new to GitHub and I have lots to say
I DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE FUCKING CODE! i just want to download this stupid fucking application and use it https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock#installation
WHY IS THERE CODE??? MAKE A FUCKING .EXE FILE AND GIVE IT TO ME. these dumbfucks think that everyone is a developer and understands code. well i am not and i don’t understand it. I only know to download and install applications. SO WHY THE FUCK IS THERE CODE? make an EXE file and give it to me. STUPID FUCKING SMELLY NERDS
https://old.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to_github_and_i_have_lots_to_say/
Looking at the history of that user, that’s either a 12 year old or a grade D troll.
Let’s remember how relatively nice Lemmy is right now…
It has a certain shitposty quality to it
This physically hurt me.
Who can I sue? Any lawyers in the chat?
This highlights how [1] compiling on windows and configuring a compiler and settings is a PITA and [2] Windows has no package manager.
Yes, yes, we understand. Maybe cry and beg daddy Windows harder and maybe they will be kind enough to condescend… I mean probably not.
Maybe if he White Knights and SIMPs harder Sempai will notice him.
This used to be true but not anymore
Winget is still pretty young but very functional. And WingetUI is wonderful
And Chocolatey has been around for a long time as an unofficial Windows package manager
The funny thing is that they could’ve used pip. Even on Windows. https://pypi.org/project/sherlock-hunt/
Only if you have Python installed and know how to use command prompt
Reminds me of the Salesforce NO SOFTWARE era.
No love for .com files?
Granted they’re the exact opposite of cross-platform.
proprietary, why did they mention that if they wanna marketing broo
Because it’s fake, it’s a joke about that GitHub troll a couple weeks ago
Wtf
Wtf
Wtf
wtf.exe
…I’m confused unless this is just a fake joke image. Is there really a Microsoft page dedicated to .exe like this? A quick Google only returned non-MS results for me and I can’t be bothered to look beyond that.
Also, what is there to even download for this? Just a link to Visual Studio to compile your own executables…?
Some dude was ranting somewhere recently about GitHub and “I just want the damn exe, not a bunch of stupid code”. It became a bit of a meme.
I can’t blame him. I recently tried to compile a rust app from github. I did not realize that cargo was pulling a GIGABYTE of data on my bandwidth-restricted connection until it was done. Then it wouldn’t compile due to version mismatch. So I tried to update the rust version and that started throwing errors. The last thing I am doing is wasting my time troubleshooting such a crappy toolchain. If I have to play inspector gadget just to install the compiler and libraries to compile a small program, you can forget it. Cargo is a monstrosity and it is NOT a good toolchain if you value time and simplicity. I would much rather the maintainer offer binaries for download rather than requiring me to git clone, apt install, realize the deps aren’t in the apt repo, hunt down and compile the deps, run make, then troubleshoot forever and a day before I can even do make install. Just give me a binary with everything built in. Kthxbye.
We all get to that point but we don’t go full meme. You never go full meme.
What I’m hearing is you’d rather that the developer used their time to produce binaries so you don’t need to spend your own time.
The problem with open source is that people expect a lot time and effort to go into things like bug fixes, documentation and support, when often the devs start out making something to scratch a personal itch. They then share it for the benefit of others, and it can be a slippery slope where you can end up with a second job, except you don’t get paid or even thanked.
Open source burnout is a big problem.
Who better to compile a binary than the person that wrote the code?
Yeah sure, I’ll compile it in my OS. For any other OS, either I’m not knowledgeable about the tools available, and many of them that I am not going to spend money to acquire. If providing the binary a developer compiles for themselves would solve it, we’d not have that problem at all.
I specifically hate when program or libraries are only in compiled form, and then I get an error messages talking about an absolute path it has with some usernames I’ve never seen before, and no way to correct it as there’s no code. Turns out when people pass compiled versions to the OS they don’t use themselves they don’t encounter the errors and think it works fine.
