I don't understand any of this shit. Like, what is this a package management system for?
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Hyrax: An open-source repository front-end
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Re: Hyrax: An open-source repository front-end
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#23What the hell is a repository solution? A CMS?
You could think about it as MediaGoblin, but for academic institutions. A place to store images, video, or other kinds of digital stuff. Hyrax comes with an interface for uploading/searching/viewing the files that are stored in the repository. In a certain sense it is like VCS in that it does versioning.
This is a much better description than what is on the homepage. Why doesn't it just say this??
Re: Hyrax: An open-source repository front-end
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
so may be start with explaining that this is not a repository as a developer would expect.
I think they represent the library community more than the dev community and are a bit stubborn to use the terms familiar to us (IMO).
I mean, why wouldn't librarians be stubborn with respect to jargon? The intended audience clearly isn't Hacker News and the terms of the trade predate the tech community by decades in many cases- it doesn't make sense to just throw terminology to the wind.
It'd be like if a bunch of Frenchmen suddenly invaded England and forced them to speak French, even though English was perfectly sufficient for communication already.
Oh wait...
Re: Hyrax: An open-source repository front-end
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could think about it as MediaGoblin, but for academic institutions. A place to store images, video, or other kinds of digital stuff. Hyrax comes with an interface for uploading/searching/viewing the files that are stored in the repository. In a certain sense it is like VCS in that it does versioning.
This is a much better description than what is on the homepage. Why doesn't it just say this??
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