Steps to building a cool program (the really cool way)
- Clone the GitHub repository
- Open command prompt
- Run the build command
- It fails because the repository owner uses a different c++ compiler and it only works with that one
- It fails again, realize you installed visual studio wrong somehow so spend an hour trying to get the visual studio installer to find and uninstall it before deleting the installation directory entirely and installing the required version again
- It still fails, the project looks for version “” of protobuf but you have “3.1.10.1” so you reconfigure it to look for a real version of protobuf
- It fails again, some tool that isn’t in the readme is required to build it
- It fails again, it’s not actually compatible with windows yet
- Give up and wait for pre built binaries
Edit: did the other guy that responded block me? I got a notification about it but can’t load the comment
I hate when the installation takes like 20 steps. Never heard of an installation script and a interactive installation? I’ve installed far more complex software, that gets this but your shitty programm can’t do it?
And they wonder why nearly nobody uses Linux. In Windows nearly all software comes as an executable. Imagine offering a software under windows, where you need to do the setup manually in a shell.
It’s literally three steps, not 20 you overdramatic cringelord
It’s just downloading the shit, navigate to the shit, run the shit
clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock.git
change the working directory to sherlock
$ cd sherlock
install the requirements
$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
If you’re too stupid to handle that then just suffer, for real
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? I’m not speaking of this project but in general. Other projects where they does this, not this one.
I’m from the 90s and early 2000s Windows days when most of my time was spent figuring things out and getting things to run
STILL don’t understand what I’m supposed to do with the stuff on GitHub lmao 😂
STUPID FUCKING SMELLY NERDS
I can kinda vibe with that. Worst I’ve ever seen was installation instructions posted in a Discord server.
i quit my CS degree 2 years in because these sorts of people are the absolute worst at empathizing with a problem and giving a clear and fair answer. the attitude is usually that if you’re asking at all, you didn’t try hard enough to figure it out yourself. how dare you make me do my job