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by wiseowise 356 days ago
> Obviously you should install it via a shell script directly from curl!

No? You can install it via pip.

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I was going off on a bit of a tangent but take a look at this horror, which is still up:

https://github.com/InboraStudio/Proxmox-VGPU

Note the quite professional looking README.md and think about the audience for this thing - kittens hitting the search bong and trying to get something very complicated working.

Read the scripts: they are pretty short and could put your hypervisor in the hands of someone else who may not be too friendly.

Now pip has the same problem except you don't normally go in with a web browser first.

I raised an issue to at least provide a hint to casual browsers and also raised it with the github AI bottie complaint thang which doesn't care about you, me or anything else for that matter.

You can do both but the official recomendation is shell + curl[0].

Not an expert but I think there's performance gains to calling the binary directly rather than through python.

[0]: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/