Tim Caswell@creationixWhen considering installing OSS binaries, which do you prefer?curl https://url | sh45.5%git clone url; cp bin18.7%build from source anyway10.6%Run away screaming25.2%123 votes·Final results4:48 PM · May 5, 20161 Like
Tim Caswell@creationix·May 5, 2016@maceskridge But what will that download button do? Auto-detect platform from user-agent and offer most-likely binary? Does it feel safer?
Don McCurdy (@donmccurdy@fosstodon.org)@donrmccurdy·May 5, 2016Replying to @creationix@creationix I strongly dislike piping curl into shell. It's unlikely I know, but what if connection closes 8 chars into "rm -rf /tmp/foo"?2
Tim Caswell@creationix·May 5, 2016Replying to @donrmccurdy@donrmccurdy is that any different to downloading and running binaries?1
manuALE @seriousManual·May 5, 2016Replying to @creationix@creationix there's one answer missing: "I'm on windows"1
Tim Caswell@creationix·May 6, 2016Replying to @seriousManual@seriousManual on windows it's paste this powershell command into cmd.exe that downloads and runs the real script.
Dan Holmes@jaitaiwan·May 5, 2016Replying to @creationix@creationix So are we running away screaming from the potential security vulnerabilities, or from having to compile ourselves? :P1
Tim Caswell@creationix·May 6, 2016Replying to @creationixUpdated poll, which do you prefer for installing OSS binaries?homebrew / dpkg / rpm83.8%download executable4.3%download installer10.7%git repo /w binary inside1.3%234 votes·Final results843
Paul Querna@pquerna·May 5, 2016Replying to @creationix@creationix Mac: Homebrew over any of those. Linux: git clone, but will consider https://packagecloud.io or such for somethings.11
JBaruch @jbaruch·May 5, 2016Replying to @pquerna@pquerna @creationix for example, you can use what Homebrew uses - @bintray