On 09/30/17 13:34, Andy Bradford wrote:
Thus said Steve Schow on Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:43:38 -0600:
Who is hosting that and what is the longevity compared to github and
others?
Longevity on the Internet seems to be an often nebulous thing. How long
was Google Code (code.google.com) around? How long did Source Forge last
before people started ditching it?
The nice thing about chiselapp.com is that it's really just Fossil. If
chiselapp.com dies, you still have your source (assuming you clone and
sync with chiselapp.com frequently) and it wouldn't take much to find a
new host to put it on.
One of the goals of Fossil was to transcend the problem of depending on
the survival and continued interest of others by producing an enduring
file format that can outlast any particular developer, software package,
hosting service, or even database system. At heart, your Fossil
repository is what you see when you do a deconstruct: a collection of
artifacts, named by their checksums, tied together by manifests and
other structural artifacts. The Fossil code base, the SQLite database,
the Fossil web site, the Fossil developers, and the Fossil community
exist to support this format, but should all these disappear, both your
development history and your development future are safe.
--
Andy Goth | <andrew.m.goth/at/gmail/dot/com>
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