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They don't "choose tarballs over github". They choose darcs over git. Both are distributed. The terrorism line (at https://patoline.org/about.html https://pa
by LukeShu 10y ago
They don't "choose tarballs over github". They choose darcs over git. Both are distributed.
The terrorism line (at https://patoline.org/about.html https://patoline.org/about.html) isn't taking a shot at git, it's taking a shot at GitHub, which is centralized in spite of git's underlying distributed nature.
And this is far from the first project to choose a free/open distributed system over a proprietary centralized one.
- WhitneyLand 10y agoStill not logical. They could have simply done both. Put on github due to popularity, and then mirror the repo anywhere they like to avoid blocking. >We don't want to force anyone to use it, though. For >Patoline itself, you can download source code tarballs