And that covers 90% of the people that care. Granted I think you're right that software packaging and distribution is still generally broken in 2017, but that's a problem across the board. It's a problem with java, node.js, python, etc.
Disagree. I don't know a single non-programmer with brew installed on their Mac, and non-programmers make up 90% of the people who have the most trouble copying files between two computers.
sysadmin here in MAD world using homebrew since Lion. First thing I did when I got in this morning was to pull out my personal MBP and install magic-wormhole.
So... 'brew install rssh' is bad and kludgy, but 'brew install magic-wormhole' is easy and light? And hey, if you're not on a mac, you have to also install a bunch of other deps too.
You probably shouldn't have tried to pad out your steps by taking a detour into package management.
Honestly, even if I have both rssh and magic-wormhole installed already, just creating a new user that can read (some of) the filesystem is already orders of magnitudes more hassle.
brew install magic-wormhole [1]
And that covers 90% of the people that care. Granted I think you're right that software packaging and distribution is still generally broken in 2017, but that's a problem across the board. It's a problem with java, node.js, python, etc.
[1] https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole