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Here's another take on this - programmers hate ads and SourceForge is riddled with them. GitHub isn't. Also, if I want to setup a repo and put it on GitHub, it
by programminggeek 15y ago
Here's another take on this - programmers hate ads and SourceForge is riddled with them. GitHub isn't.
Also, if I want to setup a repo and put it on GitHub, it's stupidly, ridiculously easy. SF isn't hard, but it isn't as easy.
Open source software is about PROGRAMMERS collaborating. GitHub makes that incredibly easy and straightforward. Want to join a project? Fork the code and tweak til your hearts content. Your code shows up in the network and other people can find/clone/fork/hack til their hearts are content. Want to contribute to a SF project? Um... contact the dev and hope the project isn't dead?
SF is designed to be a kind of Download.com for FOSS. For that it's fine, but GitHub is designed for developers to share code.
Also, GitHub is great because it also does private code hosting, so if I'm working on my own stuff or FOSS stuff, I can use GitHub for both. That is incredibly convenient.
- grandalf 15y agoI think that's an understatement. Sourceforge is so bad that for years (well before Github) I have dreaded downloading anything from it or needing to use its navigation in any way. Also, a fair bit of malware has been hosted there over the years and the site offers no useful search or way of finding what you're looking for. The initial idea was a good one, but the founder cashed out long ago.
- shailesh 15y agoE.g., wget support was broken for a very long time. So, you had to either a. algorithmically compose a URL or b. navigate to the real download link using the browser, collating all of them together and then wget -i blah. These days, it feels much better though.
- bulletsvshumans 15y agoProgrammers that hate ads use Adblock.