https://medium.com/@sitapati/the-impact-github-is-having-on-your-software-career-right-now-6ce536ec0b50#.krwczgbrq
> 23 feb. 2017 kl. 07:55 skrev Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de>: > > Thanks to all who contributed to this thread!! I agree with most of what you > said. > > However, we are mixing up three different, independent issues: > > 1. My initial post was about political aspects: Ubuntu does not want to build > the binary with position-dependent coding (include the -no-pie flag), and in > general there is a tendency to Clang, which has certain limitations. > Yes techno political I'd say. > 2. Using a code repository is fine. But I personally will not use any of the > existing ones, because my working style deeply depends on file meta > informations (most important the modification date), which are destroyed by > those repositories. I explained the situation at various occasions. Checking > files *into* a repo is all right, but as soon as I check them out they would > be unusable for me. Maybe we can fix this. Can we discuss this you and I? There may be a solution. > > 3. Being present on StackOverflow would be a good thing. > > > As for (2), I see no problem with the current situation. Is it so much worse > to > do a "wget http://software-lab.de/picoLisp.tgz"; instead of "git clone .."? No not as a distribution method. However github is not about technology but about the community.
