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Allow installation on non-compatible OSes #151
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Alternatively we could put it behind an |
It should work on non-rpm distros as well, theoretically. Has been used in the past to download the same windows cross-compiled libraries from Linux or Mac for testing purposes in wine or similar. |
Do we need to run update on installation? |
Can't remember what the need/justification for that is - but given the custom applications this has only ever been used for on non-Windows, making that particular step Windows-only by default should be fine. |
Thanks for taking the initiative to fix this, Simon! :) |
Given that Pkg3 doesn't support OS-specific dependencies (JuliaLang/Pkg.jl#165), there needs to be a way to install this on incompatible OSes. The main problem is
deps/build.jl
(which is called at installation time) and attempts to callWinRPM.update()
: could this be removed?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: