You're right. In the 80's I was learning to write... However, there weren't public hosted repositories, and if there was; I bet they didn't have 2 million of them, nor even two orders of magnitude less.
Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo 2015-10-22 13:28 GMT-03:00 Nicolas Cellier <[email protected]>: > In the 80s? you probably mean SCCS... > > 2015-10-22 18:01 GMT+02:00 Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected]>: >> >> 2015-10-22 12:57 GMT-03:00 Andreas Wacknitz <[email protected]>: >> > Am 22.10.15 um 17:30 schrieb monty: >> >> >> >> Github is a private VC funded company that we don't own that tomorrow >> >> could go away or adopt policies harmful to us. If Ruby can have >> >> rubygems.org >> >> (and if Steph can continue to get funding from INRIA/ESUG), then why >> >> can't >> >> we have something like STHub that's ours? >> >> >> >> >> > +1 >> > Github may be hip today but can be outdated in a few years. If Smalltalk >> > would have chosen a version management technology >> > that was en vogue in the 80s where would it be now? Does anybody even >> > remember one of those from then? >> > Having nice github integration (or whatever might be the technology of >> > the >> > day) is one thing, completely relying on it is something >> > different. >> >> We would be using SourceForge, probably :). >> Some projects still use it. Which ones? Well... the ones using >> Subversion, mostly old projects (although still maintained). >> >> But I couldn't find a new project choosing it over GitHub for code >> management. >> >> >> Esteban A. Maringolo >> >
