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Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

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Re: Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

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Post by defroost »

eropple wrote: post #30
tonius36 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with a github account? Give them some love. Their private option is cheap. Over all once you start using github it's hard to go any other route anyway.

What's wrong with a github account? It doesn't support Mercurial. I use BitBucket, on which private repositories are free (and I don't have to use git, which is a plus). Supporting only github means I can't use it. Unfortunate, because their stuff looks cool.

> Supporting only github means I can't use it. Unfortunate, because their stuff looks cool.

I'm sure if you really wanted to use Pagoda, you could use the http://hg-git.github.com/. Or you could just sign up for a free Github account (free seems to be a requirement for you, and these days with the state of the economy I can definitely relate. although no free and private as you mentioned) and learn git, which is a joy to use, and blazingly fast, which is nice for cloning large repos. Personally, I use Heroku and prefer Ruby to PHP so I don't feel compelled to try Pagoda, but I could appreciate the work that went into the site, and the backend. Impressive.

Re: Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

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Post by eropple »

defroost wrote: post #31
eropple wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with a github account? It doesn't support Mercurial. I use BitBucket, on which private repositories are free (and I don't have to use git, which is a plus). Supporting only github means I can't use it. Unfortunate, because their stuff looks cool.

> Supporting only github means I can't use it. Unfortunate, because their stuff looks cool. I'm sure if you really wanted to use Pagoda, you could use the http://hg-git.github.com/ . Or you could just sign up for a free Github account (free seems to be a requirement for you, and these days with the state of the economy I can definitely relate. although no free and private as you mentioned) and learn git, which is a j…

I am well familiar with git--I have been subjected to dealing with it on many unpleasant occasions. Git is as far from a joy to use as anything I can think of. A rather large number of scripts and other tools I've developed depend on hg out of convenience, and I have no interest in porting them to a tool that is not better for my use case where it is superior and considerably worse where it is inferior. As far as I'm concerned, git is a piece of software good in its niche--a niche that happens to be kernel development, not web-development-because-some-Ruby-people-thought-it-was-trendy--made popular via cargo-culting and it offers me nothing that Mercurial doesn't. Well, I should say that it offers nothing aside from needless complexity, substandard tools on Windows, and and poor user interface design. If Pagoda (or anyone else, for that matter) is going to perpetuate the cargo cult, I am going to decline to use it.

I can afford a Github subscription. It's not that much money. It's just completely worthless to me.

Re: Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

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Post by cubicle67 »

tonius36 wrote: post #11
sparkygoblue wrote: post #10

Pulling only from github seems very restrictive to me. So, basically if I want to put a private project on PagodaBox, I have to also purchase a github account.

What's wrong with a github account? Give them some love. Their private option is cheap. Over all once you start using github it's hard to go any other route anyway.

I use Unfuddle. For $9/month we get 4 active/4 inactive projects, 10 people, unlimited wikis, unlimited repositories, message, milestones and a ticketing system. Suits what we do to a T
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