environment.yml is overcomplete (and Linux specific) about yardl

[hansenms]

This environment file is not meant to work on Windows it is to set up a full development environment (for tool and all tests) in a Linux devcontainer. If you just want to work with this in Windows, follow the quickstart instructions for C++ or Python.

And we do need those tools in the devcontainer to have a fully functional development environment.

If you just want to use the yardl too, grab a release from here: https://github.com/microsoft/yardl/releases/

[KrisThielemans]

aha! Great. My mistake. I was reading https://github.com/microsoft/yardl/tree/v0.3.0#building-the-code-in-this-repo, but didn't read the quickstart. (Usual problem with documentation: people read the wrong bit 😉 ).

Maybe the README.md could say "if you want to use yardl, get the executable from the latest release"?

[johnstairs]

Going to close this. In the README, we have a "getting started" link (appearing before the contributing section)