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NEW ugrep 6.5: a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more
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easier windows install #387

Closed rdp closed 3 months ago

rdp commented 3 months ago

Couple of things that would make it easier/nicer for windows users looking to install it.

1) on the main page https://ugrep.com/ for windows it says winget/choco/scoop but what I was looking for was the download option. It gives the impression that there isn't one. Maybe add a 4th option "download" for windows? :)

2) an install .exe option that could add it to the PATH. Make it easy for me :)

Cheers!

genivia-inc commented 3 months ago

I agree. On the other hand, I am always hesitant myself to download Windows installers or executables unless from large corporations we should be able to trust. The Winget/choco/scoop installers are more trustworthy than "random" sites, since they check the binaries, so malware has none or less of a chance to get on your machine. Now, there is no concern with ugrep.exe since it's in the open in the repo itself that Winget/choco/scoop uses.

Just my 2 cents as to why I prefer the current way to install ugrep on Windows.

rdp commented 3 months ago

Yeah...it's more for casual users who don't even know what winget/choco/scoop are (like myself)...

FONZACUS commented 3 months ago

imho its not needed, for old school guys its just downloading the bin from the releases here and plopping it to %path% for good practices, make your own path elsewhere (like c://bin lol, like linux) and stuff em here ive only tested out winget etc, but i still prefer plopping em in d://bin

rdp commented 3 months ago

For the website I'd at least add "download" as an option for windows at the left, it's not immediately clear there, depends on what "level" of user you want to support here, cheers!

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I agree. On the other hand, I am always hesitant myself to download Windows installers or executables unless from large corporations we should be able to trust. The Winget/choco/scoop installers are more trustworthy than "random" sites, since they check the binaries, so malware has none or less of a chance to get on your machine. Now, there is no concern with ugrep.exe since it's in the open in the repo itself that Winget/choco/scoop uses.

Just my 2 cents as to why I prefer the current way to install ugrep on Windows.

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genivia-inc commented 3 months ago

OK. But also the "6.0 release" link at the top of ugrep.com takes you to the GitHub release, from where to download ugrep-windows-x64.zip that has the binaries.

rdp commented 3 months ago

Right, it just wasn't clear from the left hand that ugrep installs on "windows via download" ... :)

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 5:23 AM Dr. Robert van Engelen < @.***> wrote:

OK. But also the "6.0 release" link at the top of ugrep.com takes you to the GitHub release, from where to download ugrep-windows-x64.zip that has the binaries.

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