Tmux has left SourceForge • Hacker News Board

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by nitrogen » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:19 PM UTC

hugh4life wrote: post #109

smaili wrote: post #3

Are there any big projects still using SourceForge? I know "big" is a little subjective here, but it seems like most active projects have already migrated.

The Lazarus IDE(Delphi Clone... 1,500 downloads a day) uses it for at least their downloads. If projects need to host binaries what are the best alternative to sourceforge?

GitHub should work these days.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by RayDonnelly » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:21 PM UTC

jedisct1 wrote: post #43

I really wish MSys2 also left SourceForge, especially since it comes with a Windows installer.

We hear you, so long as our project isn't hijacked we'll never agree to malware (or any other) bundling.

Hopefully SF will not deem us to have abandoned the project either!

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by wyclif » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

est wrote: post #18

smaili wrote: post #3

Are there any big projects still using SourceForge? I know "big" is a little subjective here, but it seems like most active projects have already migrated.

homebrew?

For some odd reason, when I try to do 'brew upgrade tmux' I get the error 'tmux 1.9a already installed.' I want to upgrade to tmux2.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by brianzelip » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:41 PM UTC

smaili wrote: post #3

Are there any big projects still using SourceForge? I know "big" is a little subjective here, but it seems like most active projects have already migrated.

git's OSX build is on sourceforge.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by jhallenworld » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:42 PM UTC

Ugh, what a PITA this is going to be (my project JOE is on sourceforge and people are starting to complain). All links point to sourceforge, so how long will they take to update? When I search for "TMUX source download" I get sourceforge. If sourceforge takes over your abandoned project, I imagine that they will remove forwarding links to the replacement.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by teacup50 » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 2:58 PM UTC

easytiger wrote: post #29

ghshephard wrote: post #6

As a daily user of Tmux, I can't tell you how happy I am that they've bailed out of there. It was always really odd to me that they weren't either on a self-hosted CVS server somewhere or on GitHub - how all is well in the world.

Mailing lists on google groups, which is fine by me, but annoys a lot of people.

Is there a better alternative out there that isn't a web forum?

My projects have been stuck on Google Groups for a long time, and I want to escape.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by djeikyb » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:15 PM UTC

jjnoakes wrote: post #120

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their startup or my question, can you explain?

Your question. When you ask someone about an irrelevant detail related to their status in the community while you are discussing something unrelated, it implies (quite strongly) that you are trying to change the topic from what is at hand to a comparison of credentials, and it also implies that you believe your credentials to be better in some way, somehow giving you an upper hand. If you are truly independently curi…

The persons finds bundled malware acceptable. If they sell software, I'd like to avoid it. This is how I interpreted the question.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by k_bx » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:20 PM UTC

blueblob wrote: post #117

k_bx wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see a problem here, you can just get a gmail account and read mail however you like still, configuring mail client of choice. UPDATE: wow, didn't know you can't even read messages without being google-user. Yeah, that's boorish a bit. UPDATE2: turned out that's not true. You can read google group perfectly fine without signing in: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tmux-users

Assuming there are only 2 threads, Otherwise, that only shows the public threads.

Yeah, as I understand they just moved from Sourceforge, since signed-in, I also see just 2 threads.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by sandsmark » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:21 PM UTC

teacup50 wrote: post #126

easytiger wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mailing lists on google groups, which is fine by me, but annoys a lot of people.

Is there a better alternative out there that isn't a web forum? My projects have been stuck on Google Groups for a long time, and I want to escape.

if you want a plain old mailing list: http://librelist.com/

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by artursapek » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 3:22 PM UTC

I see SourceForge as being to code hosting platforms as GoDaddy is to domain registrars. They both started in the late 90s, exploded, and suffered from their success. They became infested with bad management, became bloated and difficult to use, and employed skeezy money-making tactics. GoDaddy doesn't seem to be in trouble the way SourceForge is, though.