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I just had a glimpse of a wonderful future where GitHub releases a payments system, packaging options, and suddenly becomes an ideal app store ecosystem.
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make clean; make installI just had a glimpse of a wonderful future where GitHub releases a payments system, packaging options, and suddenly becomes an ideal app store ecosystem.
With their recent $100mm round, they might be working on this already. Could lead to an interesting future of software selling/piracy, where those that will buy, buy, and those that are desperate not to can git clone make clean; make install
Two examples off the top of my head:
Textual, an IRC client [1, 2]
Blink, a SIP client [3, 4]...this is pretty difficult to compile, though...
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[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textual/id403012667
[2] https://github.com/Codeux/Textual
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jenkins or any other of the continuous integration solutions
Yes, but that normally involves lots of inline-shell-scripting and connecting a wide array of plugins together. It's not exactly a stream-lined process.
I was a vocal critic when GitHub discontinued their downloads product earlier this year. I work on open source projects with compiled binaries. GitHub's answer to distribution had been "Use S3" which I never found satisfactory. As soon as they release an API, I'll be migrating all my projects over. EDIT: Just added my first release. Super easy. https://github.com/hawkthorne/tmx2lua/releases
Discontinuing the downloads was a big deal to a lot of people, which generated a non-trivial amount of bad press, but if they'd simply said "we have something better in the works" then I don't think anyone would've cared. Surely this wasn't dreamt up in between then and now...?
I was a vocal critic when GitHub discontinued their downloads product earlier this year. I work on open source projects with compiled binaries. GitHub's answer to distribution had been "Use S3" which I never found satisfactory. As soon as they release an API, I'll be migrating all my projects over. EDIT: Just added my first release. Super easy. https://github.com/hawkthorne/tmx2lua/releases
Which makes me wonder, since that wasn't all that long ago, why did they not give a teaser? Or did they, and we all missed it? Discontinuing the downloads was a big deal to a lot of people, which generated a non-trivial amount of bad press, but if they'd simply said "we have something better in the works" then I don't think anyone would've cared. Surely this wasn't dreamt up in between then and now...?
This sounds like the death of SourceForge. (I know, you could argue that it's already dead, and also argue that it's very much alive)
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With their recent $100mm round, they might be working on this already. Could lead to an interesting future of software selling/piracy, where those that will buy, buy, and those that are desperate not to can git clone make clean; make install
I've already seen a number of apps in the Mac App Store that take this exact approach. Two examples off the top of my head: Textual, an IRC client [1, 2] Blink, a SIP client [3, 4]...this is pretty difficult to compile, though... ----- [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textual/id403012667 [2] https://github.com/Codeux/Textual [3] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blink-lite/id431473881 [4] http://icanblink.com/downlo…
I just had a glimpse of a wonderful future where GitHub releases a payments system, packaging options, and suddenly becomes an ideal app store ecosystem.