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Yeah also would be nice to see compiled versions for various versions of unix like AIX, HPUX, Solaris, etc etc.
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On my computer (cheap pc from 2015 with a rotating hdd) it takes less than two seconds to compile and less than one second to compile with a warm filesystem cache - by far the most expensive operation is installing ncurses if they are missing (assuming the compiler is already there).
TLDR: compilation is really quick, why binaries?
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Because some people don't know how to compile, or don't want to bother. Not everyone is a programmer.
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On my computer (cheap pc from 2015 with a rotating hdd) it takes less than two seconds to compile and less than one second to compile with a warm filesystem cache - by far the most expensive operation is installing ncurses if they are missing (assuming the compiler is already there).
TLDR: compilation is really quick, why binaries?
because downloading binaries takes less time than building from source. I think this is evident.
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@tenox7 I'll admit I didn't even think of that, shame on me! In my defense, I can't imagine someone who uses the terminal, knows what a terminal multiplexer is, is willing to investigate alternatives to screen/tmux AND doesn't have a compiler installed (unless it's common on some of the unix variants you listed, I've only tried some solaris variants in a vm)
@talentlessguy less than two seconds on a cheap laptop with 5400rpm hdd... also, I've never tried it myself, but I've seen several questions indicating it may be a PITA, eg https://stackoverflow.com/a/5977518
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@loreb Using terminal and a compiler is not comparable. Power users and sysadmins for instance would be very heavily utilizing terminals and even doing some scripting but they would rarely bother compiling anything. This is why users and admins mostly just install packages like deb or rpm instead of compiling from source.
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@deadpixi any updates on the issue? 🤔
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Indeed.. a static musl release would be nice, trying this out , getting linker errors on FreeBSD just didn't bother and went back to tmux.
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@joshbaptiste I suggest creating an issue for that, instead of "not bothering"
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