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Kinda irritating when a binary you need is only hosted on github (...together with the files to build from source).
by corford 7y ago
Kinda irritating when a binary you need is only hosted on github (...together with the files to build from source).
- rvz 7y agoEven worse if libraries / packages are only hosted on Github. Then the main ecosystem of a language dependent on those packages can grind to a full stop from there. I'm looking at all of you CocoaPods, SwiftPM, npm, Cargo, vgo.
- cameronbrown 7y agoInsanity. Having an emergency mirror on standby is not hard when it's critical infrastructure. Surely npm/Cargo/etc.. could do this.
- knd775 7y agoI think I'll set this up now https://github.com/local-npm/local-npm https://github.com/local-npm/local-npm
- michaelper22 7y agoAdoptOpenJDK builds are hosted there too; found out about the outage trying to download one.
- otterlicious 7y agoThe npm registry itself does not depend on GitHub. It's true that most developers rely on GitHub for pushing to the registry, but there are a handful that use GitLab or self host that would be totally unaffected.
- PascLeRasc 7y agoI'm in the same position trying to build Neovim, but I have all the sources downloaded already since libmpack always times out. Maybe someone browsing this thread who can't work right now can help: does anyone know how to force/suggest to Cmake that the dependencies it needs are already downloaded and in some src directory?
- pighive 7y agoI heard that maven is also considering to move it's central repo to github.com.