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sourceforge was always very scummy, I think they would definitely use the code for that if they could
by karel-3d 6mo ago
sourceforge was always very scummy, I think they would definitely use the code for that if they could
- mbreese 6mo agoIt wasn’t always scummy… but there was a definite shift after they got bought. It’s kept getting worse since then. Then again, this was something like 20 years ago. Back then, Sourceforge was something closer to GitHub today. It was the de facto public source repository. You could even get an on-premise version, IIRC. Actually, this is sounding a lot like GitHub these days… not sure what that means.
- ErroneousBosh 6mo agoAs I've said elsewhere, freshmeat.net was better :-)
- mbreese 6mo agoFor project discovery, definitely -- but not as a source code repository. Wow, we're dating ourselves on this, but I remember when it was a big deal that SF.net added SVN support. They apparently didn't turn off CVS until 2017!
- ErroneousBosh 6mo agoYeah, I remember introducing a web dev company to SVN in about oh maybe 2006. Prior to that their "version control" was a webroot full of shit like "index.php", "index.php.old", "index.php.broken", "index.ryan.donottouch.php", "indexTUESDAY.php" and so on. Yeah no, guys, that's not what I meant. Let me just show you this real quick... I wonder if enough of freshmeat still exists on the Wayback machine to make a clone, maybe a skin for forgejo? Simpler times, simpler everything.