Re: [Jgeneral] Thought experiment -- pacman

2022-08-26 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 9:57 AM chris burke wrote: > I agree it makes sense to support more hosting repos. The relevant > pacman code is under https://github.com/jsoftware/base9, in particular > see gitrepo.ijs. > > Perhaps the info in the proposed ~user/config/user-addons.txt would be > better

Re: [Jgeneral] Thought experiment -- pacman

2022-08-26 Thread chris burke
I agree it makes sense to support more hosting repos. The relevant pacman code is under https://github.com/jsoftware/base9, in particular see gitrepo.ijs. Perhaps the info in the proposed ~user/config/user-addons.txt would be better in ~addons/config, either as a new file or extra info in

Re: [Jgeneral] Thought experiment -- pacman

2022-08-26 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 1:22 AM 'Viktor Grigorov' via General wrote: > There's bitbucket.org, codeberg.org, gitlab.com, sr.ht, gitea.io, among > others. (They don't also arguably illegaly feed your code to their commercial > products.) There can't not exist some way to test whether or not a URI

Re: [Jgeneral] Thought experiment -- pacman

2022-08-25 Thread 'Viktor Grigorov' via General
There's bitbucket.org, codeberg.org, gitlab.com, sr.ht, gitea.io, among others. (They don't also arguably illegaly feed your code to their commercial products.) There can't not exist some way to test whether or not a URI points to a repository. Most, if not all use have a suffix of

Re: [Jgeneral] Thought experiment -- pacman

2022-08-25 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 10:17 PM 'Viktor Grigorov' via General wrote: > github is a monopoly, but not the sole code hosting website. Allowing for any > remote or local repository would be more prudent. Sure... hmm... Currently, github is the only repo supported by pacman. Perhaps it would be

Re: [Jgeneral] Thought experiment -- pacman

2022-08-25 Thread 'Viktor Grigorov' via General
github is a monopoly, but not the sole code hosting website. Allowing for any remote or local repository would be more prudent. Package updating would be nice IF doing the install doen't overwrite file (and clear dir beforehand). Aug 26, 2022, 04:03 by rauldmil...@gmail.com: > Currently, we