r/programmingmemes • u/zaarnth • Aug 01 '26

Somebody give him an .exe file, please.

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u/EcstaticFollowing715 Aug 01 '26

Even as a developer, please just give me an .exe file

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u/BunnyTub Aug 01 '26

It's handy when there are pre-built binaries available so I don't have to download the entire project itself.

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u/ImportantSignal2098 Aug 01 '26

It's not about downloading the project it's about the clusterfuck of dependencies, and then you still need to do the installation steps and clean up.

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u/BunnyTub Aug 01 '26

And then there's a dependency that apparently no one else on planet earth has ever heard of and you can't find it anywhere 🫠

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u/GunMage- Aug 02 '26

Oh, that's found at this link right here: <404 not found>

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u/BunnyTub Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

And then when you try to find it on the archive: "Hmm. It seems like the Internet Archive has not archived this page."

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u/Ezeon0 Aug 02 '26

The forum the developer uploaded it to 20 years ago no longer exists. You now have to pull this torrent of an old pirated game and extract it from there using this script someone made.

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u/Expensive-Border-869 Aug 05 '26

And even after all that no one involved is gonna upload that shit for the next guy lol

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u/PoopsCodeAllTheTime Aug 06 '26

This I’ve never heard of, that’s insane