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Obsidian on Android source seems not available. Even generally the reports seems that source is not available. May be the freebsd build is using some binary li
by billfruit 2y ago
Obsidian on Android source seems not available. Even generally the reports seems that source is not available.
May be the freebsd build is using some binary library packages?
A cursory search indicates that one of the freebsd 'build-scripts' used for installing obsidian uses a binary package for obsidian itself, not building it from source.
It strange that about obsidian which seems to be rather popular here has many people thinking that it is open source, when it is not.
- wkat4242 2y agoYou probably mean this one: https://github.com/jgrafton/freebsd-obsidian https://github.com/jgrafton/freebsd-obsidian That's just a user contributed thing though. It's also just in the official ports collection. There's only a makefile there and some config files for electron (electron is kinda a PITA to compile on FreeBSD because there's no package) Now, it can update itself automatically but it's all JavaScript. No binaries. But it's safe enough for me anyway. Especially because the dev community uses it do much. If it did something untoward it would be noticed quickly.
- billfruit 2y agoThe "official" packages seems derived from the Nix build for Obsidian, which is using binary caches to get the Obsidian binary is what I could understand.