#18569 Strategic choice for bash installer New discussion created by dispyfree Hi all, this question is of generic nature and not related to any specific problem I have with pants. In fact, I am just getting started with pants and am currently devouring the documentation :) As per official documentation, pants is to be installed via a bash script that we pull off the pants domain. I've been noticing that kind of installation with a number of other projects as well, in particular I can think of terraform and Microsoft products. This has been gaining traction, as I used to be able to install everything off a package manager just a decade ago. Whenever I see that, I am wondering why no package manager was used instead. There must be a solid reason and I'd like to know why :) Package managers are there for a reason and foregoing that by running a simple shell script is inevitably going to reintroduce all the problems that package managers used to solve. So I'm really curious to hear what the reasons were to go down this route instead. I haven't personally managed installation procedures for any large scale project so I really have no insights there just yet. I am looking forward to your answers! With best regards! pantsbuild/pants