Remove dependencies for building from scratch

mathesar-foundation / mathesar

Web application providing an intuitive user experience to databases.

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Remove dependencies for building from scratch #3514

Open mathemancer opened 6 months ago

mathemancer commented 6 months ago

Problem

Our 0.1.6 instructions to build from scratch LINK HERE WHEN PUBLISHED require wget, unzip, and gettext dependencies.

Proposed solution

We should:

discuss whether we want to go through the effort to remove these,
Add whatever modifications are needed to our building and release process, and
remove dependencies as per the earlier bullet points.

Additional context

Based on my comments on #3494 .

pavish commented 6 months ago

Considering that our target users for the build from scratch setup are sysadmins, I'm not sure that we need to put in the additional effort at removing the wget and unzip dependencies.

I do think there might be some value in removing gettext and downloading compiled translation files similar to how we now download the frontend static files.