Ask HN: Would a platform-indep devtool installer be useful? I'm building one

#1

Post by rushi_agrawal » Wed, Jul 20, 2016, 9:17 PM UTC

I had this idea where there is just one command to install something (e.g. docker) on any machine, be it Ubuntu or Fedora or Mac, for development purposes. More information in the readme:

https://github.com/rushiagr/xin

Do you think it is going to be useful?

Re: Ask HN: Would a platform-indep devtool installer be useful? I'm building one

#2

Post by moondev » Wed, Jul 20, 2016, 9:21 PM UTC

you mean like a package manager? what's wrong with apt, brew etc

also there already is a command to install docker on any machine

curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh

and as a bonus:

https://xkcd.com/1654/

Re: Ask HN: Would a platform-indep devtool installer be useful? I'm building one

#3

Post by rushi_agrawal » Wed, Jul 20, 2016, 9:40 PM UTC

moondev wrote: post #2

you mean like a package manager? what's wrong with apt, brew etc also there already is a command to install docker on any machine curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh and as a bonus: https://xkcd.com/1654/

> you mean like a package manager? what's wrong with apt, brew etc

Yes, like a universal package manager, but only for quick and dirty dev environment setup. The problem with apt, brew etc is that brew is for Mac only, and APT is for debian-like distros only.

the script at https://get.docker.com/ is exactly what I was thinking of building. Thanks for the pointer. Now I can't think of anything for which Xin-like thing would be useful apart from Vagrant installation.