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Packages will keep having the essential problem that there's no guarantee whatsoever that the package was derived from the advertised source. Plenty of chance for delivering malicious code.
This is really outstanding. It will mean the death of Maven Central, about which I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, Sonatype deserves enormous thanks for what they have done for the open source world, as does mvnrepository.org. Their central repository has been free and maintained for a long time. Thank you, Sonatype. On the other hand, it took me three days to release a new version of one of my artifacts the ot…
All packages are GPG signed, come with companion source and javadoc artifacts, and are guaranteed a certain amount of other metadata in the POM. There are "easier" repositories (like Bintray jcenter) but anyone who has used something from there that didn't include sources or proper licensing information soon comes to appreciate why it is that Maven Central (and not jcenter) that is the center of the Java ecosystem.
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It is still really unorganized in many ways. The worst thing, I think, is search results still frequently list obsolete MSDN pages higher...and, btw, the new branding is not MSDN, but docs.microsoft.com. They still have a long ways to go, with the typical problems of a large organization tackling a large, kind of amorphous, project.
docs.microsoft.com PM here - thanks for the feedback! It takes some time to update all our search results across the two major search engines. Given that some pages have less traction than others, the more obscure content sometimes still is indexed as if it's coming from MSDN. We have moved most of the library to docs, with redirects in place, so hopefully you won't get too many 404s. If you do - feel free to report…
What's the second major search engine?
I'm genuinely asking, not meaning to poke if it's Bing - I use DDG but just don't have a feel at all for what's most popular after the obvious one.
Wikipedia has just 7% market share left for the second, and the rest - thinking about it's probably one that's popular in China and unheard of elsewhere?
Remember this when you guys all rush to sign up for their new services because it's easier for you now ;)
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Truth, I was at SO in Manhattan for a JS meetup a couple times and all the desktop computers were PCs with Dell monitors.Not a single Mac in sight. Have a feeling they weren't running linux either since Stack Overflow is .NET I believe.
I remember many many years ago listening to the Stack Overflow podcast which was Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky talking, in real time, about them creating Stack Overflow. IIRC it uses ASP.Net MVC or something like that, and might have been the first and/or biggest site using it?
This is really outstanding. It will mean the death of Maven Central, about which I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, Sonatype deserves enormous thanks for what they have done for the open source world, as does mvnrepository.org. Their central repository has been free and maintained for a long time. Thank you, Sonatype. On the other hand, it took me three days to release a new version of one of my artifacts the ot…
Hey Microsoft, if you're listening, you should throw Sonatype or other Maven-related organizations a few bucks. They deserve it.
Looks like Docker, node/npm, ruby/gems, java/maven, and nuget... but no Python? Seems an odd choice for the one to leave out.
Maybe because PyPI has a closer relationship with Python than the other package managers have with their core tech?
Looks like Docker, node/npm, ruby/gems, java/maven, and nuget... but no Python? Seems an odd choice for the one to leave out.
Notice how you were able to call out the de facto package manager for those languages, but didn't for Python? I would imagine supporting the various Python package managers in use would be a bit annoying.