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Linux downloads have declined because most developers get binaries from their distribution and fewer and fewer old projects (i.e. those from source forge) need
by onedognight 15y ago
Linux downloads have declined because most developers get binaries from their distribution and fewer and fewer old projects (i.e. those from source forge) need to be downloaded as source.
OS X is a backwater as far as binary distribution is concerned and so developers have to use brew or macports. Every time you do "brew install blah" you have a 1/3 chance of downloading a project from source forge.
- swasheck 15y agorestated: I'd like to see the statistics comparing github, gitorious, bitbucket, google code, heck, even codeplex. SourceForge is no longer the only goto for compiling from source, either.
- lloeki 15y agoFWIW I was being curious: $ cd /usr/local/Library/Formula $ ls -l | wc -l 1807 $ cat * | grep url | grep sourceforge | wc -l 396
- quanticle 15y agoAnother factor is Github. It could be that a lot of the new software for Linux is now hosted on Github, Bitbucket, and other DVCS-friendly sites. Meanwhile, as you say, the more stable stuff on Sourceforge is likely to be handled by distro-specific repositories.