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…ypress BREAKING: Signal removal of official support for direct download of Cypress
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Maybe get rid of the probably here?
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yeah, I'm not sure that we KNOW they globally installed it. I almost removed this as well.... 🤔
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Ahh yeah. The wording does make it seem like we do not know for sure
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BREAKING: Signal removal of official support for direct download of Cypress
Additional details
See thread
There are official differences between the binary when downloaded directly or via a package manager. These can be very difficult to track down and test by our team.
Additionally, the direct downloads make up an extremely small percentage of downloads of Cypress.
Steps to test
No effective changes to test
How has the user experience changed?
No changes effectively - we want users to be aware that this will no longer be supported. We may followup with cleanup on the repo. Will followup removing instructions on docs/public website.
PR Tasks
cypress-documentation?type definitions?