But the main point of the article was (which I strongly agree with) that running stuff like Autotools, gems, or package manager kind of sucks when you just want to install a console tool.
At least back in the "old times" we were distributing program + additional runtime, and not requiring a random unexpected runtime in proper version + whole supporting infrastructure + program source code to build. The former option greatly simplified installation.
At least back in the "old times" we were distributing program + additional runtime, and not requiring a random unexpected runtime in proper version + whole supporting infrastructure + program source code to build. The former option greatly simplified installation.