prefer to use system binary if available

Question

prefer to use system binary if available

torvitas opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Sascha Marcel Schmidt commented 7 years ago

Hi,

it were nice if bin wrapper would just use the systems binaries if available. This especially makes sense for alpine Linux where static compiled binaries often do not work.

Greetings, Sascha

riot · Answer 1 · Thu Dec 19 2019 23:01:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This has quite substantial (positive) consequences for arm64 and other platforms, imho. I strongly advise to add this functionality. There are some problems other people already mentioned, though:

Among them the possibility of many varying versions of binary packages, maybe restrictions on which versions would be available (e.g. on Debian).

Then again, i see this issue has last been touched end of 2017. Is this thing still on?
If so, cheers! 🍾 🍰

Sascha Marcel Schmidt · Answer 2 · Sat Dec 21 2019 17:18:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi, I do not have any interest in this issue anymore, I wrote some code back then which is available as pull-request. Beware that this code still has issues that need to be solved which is why it never was merged.