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Be clear in docs which architectures are supported

Open CodingDoug opened this issue 2 weeks ago • 1 comments

I tried to get ydf to work on my M1 mac, and only after a couple of hours struggling with this did I find that this was never going to work. I also tried on a Linux arm64 VM on the same machine. There was nothing telling me that neither of these things were ever going to work as expected.

What's worse is that installing ydf is actually possible on these platforms, but it just gets a very old version of the library that was built for one of those platforms. As such, one is very much fooled into thinking that they are on a good path (unless they happen to notice the version).

There really needs to be a clear mention of the platforms that are or are not supported at the top of the docs, maybe in the getting started guide.

Ideally, it would be great to actually support arm platforms. It's not clear why that was dropped.

CodingDoug avatar Jun 24 '24 16:06 CodingDoug