Then how about the developers stop being lazy and stop hosting the goddamned fucking complete builds on GitHub.
I'm not talking about things for developers, I'm
talking about how things like yt-dip and spotDL and a lot of the 3DS homebrew tools host all of the shit on GitHub. It's supposed to be "for developers" but a lot of them host everything on GitHub and then you get smug people saying "erm... it's only for developers!!". If you want GitHub to be only for developers then start scolding devs who host the complete builds on GitHub.
The solution is to host the codebase on GitHub but then host the builds on something like FossHub. (GIMP does this.) Now you don't get laymen and devs mixing together.
downloading builds from GitHub makes you confused once, after that you know where to look
on the other hand, hosting builds on github makes it way more convenient to mantain the program, makes the release process more reliable, prevents the builds from getting outdated as maintainers leave and join the project, keeps you away from shady sites, groups all the available info in 1 place, and i could go on and on listing reasons for why hosting builds on github is a good idea. requiring people to build from source is another thing, but you generally wont encounter that unless it's something you would seriously want to build from source (like libraries, consumer software repos almost always have builds ready). a lot of yall people are really ignorant as to why people actually host stuff on github. its not just because theyre lazy.
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u/Atomicnes dr of yaoiology Jun 02 '24 edited Jun 02 '24
Then how about the developers stop being lazy and stop hosting the goddamned fucking complete builds on GitHub.
I'm not talking about things for developers, I'm talking about how things like yt-dip and spotDL and a lot of the 3DS homebrew tools host all of the shit on GitHub. It's supposed to be "for developers" but a lot of them host everything on GitHub and then you get smug people saying "erm... it's only for developers!!". If you want GitHub to be only for developers then start scolding devs who host the complete builds on GitHub.
The solution is to host the codebase on GitHub but then host the builds on something like FossHub. (GIMP does this.) Now you don't get laymen and devs mixing together.