This would make installation much easier on services such as Travis CI. This is already done by Buck (for example https://github.com/facebook/buck/releases/tag/v2018.10.29.01)
Watchman is now also available in Debian and Ubuntu and can be installed via 'apt-get install watchman'. New releases will be tracked and made available in Debian unstable/testing.
sudo apt-get install watchman
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Watchman is now also available in Debian and Ubuntu and can be installed via 'apt-get install watchman'. New releases will be tracked and made available in Debian unstable/testing.