[kylek]

You're crazy. This fellow deserves all of today's internet points. He even has a man page!

[bloopernova]

The project/script is freaking great, it's well-written but its installation method needs some work.

It symlinks from the git cloned directory to /usr/local/bin during installation.

When it runs, it does helpfully tell you which tools it needs, but each of those tools has a different install method:

* two are system packages

* one is a Go executable

* another a php composer package

* another is installed via npm

(that's a lot of extra language dependencies for a single script if you don't already have everything installed)

[flowardnut]

It'd be a great/easy to use docker image. I'd go that route before I'd worry about npm/php/golang on my system.

[trimstray]

dockerfile is also available: https://github.com/trimstray/htrace.sh/blob/master/build/Doc...

[flowardnut]

That would be worthwhile in the README! If you agree I'll PR the instructions

[trimstray]

Sure. PRs welcome!

[flowardnut]

Just swung around to this. You are killing it :P

(good job!)

[wink]

I'm really sorry to the OP if I seemed annoyed, but I was merely stating my first impression.

I'm not a big fan of shell scripts for complicated tasks, but their main benefit is exactly "one file, runs everywhere, it just works" - if you take away all three of those I question if it's the right choice being a shell script. For tools of this scope I really like go. stuff everything together as a static binary and you're good to go.