Raspberry pi ? about helium

[teruakohatu]

The author says in the README that he will not respond to issues.

[mherrmann]

Thank you Te. I say I do respond if it's easy for me. It is easy for me to respond to this one: I don't support ARM devices. If you want to submit a Pull Request that adds this @vlidu, feel free to create one.

Closing this :-)

[pabs3]

Probably the right way to support ARM and other platforms would be to remove the webdriver binaries from git and require people to download the right one for their platform, possibly providing a script that would help to do that. For example Ubuntu distributes ARM geckodriver here even though Mozilla doesn't build ARM binaries any more.

[karolzlot]

Probably fixed by 6b970dc

Helium will now use drivers on PATH if available

Also fixes duplicate #7

[pabs3]

This fix means that RPi users have to know that Mozilla doesn't provide a geckodriver binary for ARM and then find out that Ubuntu does provide one and then find out where it is, download it and install it. A better option would be to remove the webdriver binaries from git and require people to download the right one for their platform by providing them with a script that would download from Mozilla for most platforms and from Ubuntu for ARM platforms.

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[karolzlot]

A better option would be to remove the webdriver binaries from git

Removing isn't necessary, it won't give any benefit in current state. Helium should use driver on PATH if available.

And by keeping drivers in git, helium is giving easier start to most of new users. What is needed is to add instruction / script / driver for ARM platform

[pabs3]

Agreed the current state doesn't allow removing them but the ideal situation would be that they get removed. One should always remove binaries and other build products from git since git is for source code, not build products. Binaries and other build products should instead be built from source, preferably as often as possible using CI/CD, stored in packages and installed with a package manager like conda. With GitHub, the build products can be attached to releases for manual downloads or imported into GitHub hosted package repositories for much easier installation. https://github.com/features/actions https://github.com/features/packages

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