Oh absolutely. Its just fossil. For me I can see two benefits to putting source on a public site like that.
1 - uptime. Don’t have to worry about keeping my own fossil server up and running 24/7. 2 - longevity, which is why I asked about that. If I post some code on the internet, my desire will be for it to last pretty much forever. Nobody uses source forge anymore, but you can still go there and download code that has been there a very long time. The original author doesn’t have to worry about reposting it somewhere else again later. Github is a fairly permanent source repository, I do not see that going away any time soon. It will be around for decades. Thus it is a very good place to place code that you want to not only work on publically, but just share with the world publicly and indefinitely. However, I also do not like git much at all. AT ALL. You all know the reasons why already. Besides the much discussed flaws with git, I just love that fossil has ticketing and versioning and wiki all built into one lightweight easy to install binary. I tried messing around with all the other things people are using, and they were nightmare installs with MySQL or Postgres just to get started and basically way too complicated for small to medium projects. Plus they generally require you to use git…bleh.. Right now my thoughts are that if I create some kind of open source thing or something that I want to share with others, I feel like I would want to do all my work using fossil for tickets and version control, but then if I want to share my ongoing changes on github it would be a pain in the neck. I guess chiselapp.com is pretty cool, if I find myself needing to do a multi-developer project or work on something where I hope others can contribute, then that would be better to avoid having to expose my own fossil server to the WAN. I would get the uptime. I’m pretty sure it will not last for decades, so I would have to consider this as most likely a temporary solution for publicly sharing the code on long term basis. Fossil is so easy to install, its kind of a moot point…really don’t need it. Except for like I said..the two reasons above and keep your own server off the WAN. > On Sep 30, 2017, at 12:34 PM, Andy Bradford > <amb-sendok-1509388468.kfbdnedbbkhghgefp...@bradfords.org> 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. > > Andy > -- > TAI64 timestamp: 4000000059cfe3d8 > > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
