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aloof-angle-91616

04/09/2020, 9:54 PM
yes, i would love to have pants install it automatically but for now i think relying on a local install is a good solution
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hundreds-father-404

04/09/2020, 9:55 PM
Upon thinking more about this, I don’t think we want this. Installing Docker is pretty heavy weight and it could be surprising to a user for Pants to do this automatically. Instead, I think we would want to error eagerly with a nice message on “Docker is not installed or discoverable. Do x to install Docker, then run again.”
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aloof-angle-91616

04/10/2020, 12:02 AM
when i say install it automatically i was referring to similarly to our other binary tools, without interfering with other programs on the user's system
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i think the error message you wrote is great
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