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by starbugs 2719 days ago
Consider someone writing a guide on how to install packages on multiple platforms. You only need one guide and not three based on brew. Especially interesting for Windows 10 IMO.
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Generally speaking all that documentation should consist of is "click this link to download <thing> for <os>" and maybe "extract its contents somewhere". Anything else is over-complicating the situation for no good reason. Unfortunately that has become such an ingrained part of the open source culture that we keep imagining things like this are a good idea.