Post #2245012

2026-05-07 20:01 UTC

please add a "run this command to build the thing" to your foss projects. sincerily, someone who's trying to fix a minecraft mod and is failing to setup gradle due to missing docs

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@nea89@kitty.social 2026-05-07 20:59

@RedstoneLP2@mastodon.redstonelp2.com unironically github actions are often the only way to find out and it is quite sad. even as someone who has spent way too much time on build systems that stuff is just obtuse sometimes.

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@maddy@thegayagenda.fans 2026-05-07 21:10

@RedstoneLP2@mastodon.redstonelp2.com There's one I ran into that said some shit like "If you want to build it yourself, look at the github actions" I'm not a full-time coder, so that only left me with more questions, and source that still wouldn't build. :neofox_woozy:

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@lunareclipse@snug.moe 2026-05-07 21:28

@RedstoneLP2@mastodon.redstonelp2.com if a project has a complex build process I usually throw a Justfile in there for this exact reason. And also because I will forget myself.

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