On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:17PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 8/22/2018 10:28 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > I don't argue against the usefulness of the features that github > > provides, but I'm also wary of the fact that it's basically a walled > > garden -- there's no simple way I know of to extract data like pull > > requests, comments, cross-references, etc.. I mean, it's *possible* > > to write a web crawler that does just that, but such functionality > > is second-class, and one might argue, that it is possible at all is > > merely a happy accident, since github's very design seems to be > > geared at drawing people to centralize everything on github. It's > > not quite at the point of vendor lock-in, but it's certainly > > uncomfortably close, in my view. > > As for github comments, they get echoed to me as emails. So I have an > email archive of them.
That's good to know. Still, an export function that will give you your data in some computer-parseable format would have been nice. T -- Why can't you just be a nonconformist like everyone else? -- YHL
