Shards for Idiots -- like me. about shards HOT 9 CLOSED

First of all install Crystal normally, http://crystal-lang.org/docs/installation/on_debian_and_ubuntu.html

You can download a statically compiled 64bit executable from https://github.com/ysbaddaden/shards/releases/tag/v0.4.0

If that doesn't fit your system, download the source tarball from above link and extract it, change into the directory and run make. That should produce a binary at bin/shards.

Either way make sure that binary is in your $PATH, for example by copying it to /usr/local/bin or a directory in your $HOME that you add to your $PATH in your .bashrc.

Once that's done go to your project and create a shard.yml as seen on the readme or further described in SPEC.md. Then just run shards install and you're ready to go.

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Thank you @jhass, that was exactly what I was looking for.

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Oh! I had to make a further tweak before it all started working. I was getting this error:

git command failed: git tag --list --no-column

It looks like the installed version of git (1.7) didn't support the --no-column option.

I fixed that by updating git to 2.5

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Bad luck I guess, looks like that was added with 1.7.11: git/git@d96e3c1

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Indeed! Mine was 1.7.9.5

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There is no such thing as a stupid question. Installation steps are indeed lacking. We'll eventually bundle Shards with Crystal distributions, so this should be simpler.

Thanks for the detailed installation steps @jhass!

Please open an issue about Git < 1.7.11 being unsupported (I'll open one otherwise). Maybe we can fix it, or at least fail with a nice error message, prompting to upgrade Git.

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I'd say we shouldn't support it, it's supported for more than 3 years by now.

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I've open a new issue #35

I agree with @jhass that it shouldn't be supported, but also with @ysbaddaden that a more meaningful error message would be helpful.

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Oh! And what about posting @jhass 's installation steps to this project's wiki?

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