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Right. So what code hosts actually still allow downloads, which are imho the best way to handle disciplined releases and to feed into package managers?
by endgame 13y ago
Right. So what code hosts actually still allow downloads, which are imho the best way to handle disciplined releases and to feed into package managers?
- dydx 13y agoBitbucket
- grandpoobah 13y agogithub offers free homepages, i use mine to host an installer for my github project
- giovannibajo1 13y agoGitHub has removed the generic files section, but they have introduced some features for "releases" (basically, additional metadata associated to git tags) and that includes file hosting for release binaries. That should work for most use cases.
- _delirium 13y agoThe original, Sourceforge, still does. Also, GNU Savannah.
- makomk 13y agoTrouble is, a lot of Sourceforge sofware is bundled with adware these days, so anyone with sense won't download from them.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoNo, it isn't. There were a total of 3 projects (literally 3 out of 300,000+) that use the SourceForge adware download feature. These are the 3 (or was it 4?) that signed up during the test period before SF closed the program to re-evaluate it. Other than that, there are open source projects on SourceForge that manually use adware installers of the publishers' own choosing (OpenCandy, Sweet IM, etc) to try to make money. But I've seen this on other services as well, since it's up to the publisher
- gmjosack 13y agoI wanted to make a contribution to BASH recently and went about trying to figure out how, ending up at Savannah. I don't know if I've just become spoiled by Github, I remember just mailing patch files in the past and being okay with it, but when I came across Savannah, nothing about it made me want to contribute. It turned me off completely and I moved on to work on something else.
- quarterto 13y agohttps://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
- endgame 13y agoOkay, so you could tag your release in the repo and then add the result of `make distcheck` to the release afterwards, without having to check in things like configure scripts? That's not too bad.
- pbreit 13y agoCan't every version in Github be downloaded as a zip or zipball? https://help.github.com/articles/downloading-files-from-the-command-line https://help.github.com/articles/downloading-files-from-the-...
- yeukhon 13y agoYes, but some people actually use GC to store other kinds of files, like documentation photos, documentation in PDF, etc. I think Github has stopped that and an alternative is Bitbucket (if you don't want to deal with sourceforge anymore...)
- wcauchois 13y agoyou can't host your binaries on S3 for like 5 cents/year?