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Opened by Nagy Tibor@xTiborMaintainer

Nicer bootstrapping for newcomers

The bootstrapping line in the quick-start section of the README currently look like the following:

curl -sf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redox-os/redox/master/bootstrap.sh -o bootstrap.sh && bash -e bootstrap.sh

It points to the GitHub repo, it's need to be changed. So I thought why not improve it at the same time.

My proposed changes:

  • Introduce a HTTP redirect with a shorter URL for the bootstrapper like https://bootstrap.redox-os.org/ that points to the bootstrapping script on this GitLab instance.
  • Pipe curl straight into bash like the rustup installer does. This is a controversial change.
  • Add two new flags to curl:
    • -S: Print error messages. Currently curl fails silently.
    • -L: Follow HTTP redirects

After my changes that oneliner would look like the this:

curl -sfSL https://bootstrap.redox-os.org/ | bash