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zahlmanlast Tuesday at 3:25 PM1 replyview on HN

> I just hate trying to install other people’s scripts.

This notion is still strange to me. Just... incompatible with how I understand the term "script", I guess.


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Brian_K_Whitelast Tuesday at 5:16 PM

You don't understand the concept of people running software written by other people?

One of my biggest problems with python happens to be caused by the fact that a lot of freecad is written in python, and python3 writes _pycache_ directories everywhere a script executes (which means everywhere, including all over the inside of all my git repos, so I have to add _pycache_ to all the .gitignore ) and the env variable that is supposed to disable that STUPID behavior has no effect because freecad is an appimage and my env variable is not propagating to the environment set up by freecad for itself.

That is me "trying to install other people's scripts" the other people's script is just a little old thing called FreeCAD, no big.

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