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I've never seen this. Any concrete examples?

• CrLf 15y ago
  Any project on github. Put yourself in the shoes of a user that doesn't want to donwnload source. He lands on a github project page and just gives up. For a regular user (where "regular" depends on the type of software and the technical skill it requires), this is going way back to the days of source sharing on Usenet, way before the open-source term was mainstream (or even coined).
  • luigi 15y ago
    Why would someone go to GitHub if they don't want to download source code? Please, an example.
    • stock_toaster 15y ago
      I agree, and to go further, even _if_ a non-developer did on github (maybe higher in the search rankings), for many popular projects you can generally find the consumer facing url via the "homepage" link. Example: https://github.com/rack/rack https://github.com/rack/rack homepage url points to http://rack.rubyforge.org/ http://rack.rubyforge.org/ https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri => http://nokogiri.org/ http://nokogiri.org/ https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew => http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ https://github.com/joyent/node https://github.com/joyent/node => http://nodejs.org/ http://nodejs.org/ etc, etc. It also seems fairly common to put the 'consumer' url near the top or bottom of the README.