Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 31 May 2015 at 23:24, Jack L. Frost wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 08:57:12PM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >> Well, GitHub is the sourceforge of the tens... so the most sucking >> aspect about GitHub as of today is its content. Every hipster can host >> his crapware there. And it feels like 9

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
Quoth Jack L. Frost on Mon, Jun 01 2015 00:24 +0300: In other words: GitHub favors the quantity rather than the quality. It is lacking a good portion of hygene in its open source handling. So you want it to do quality control? Good design enforces its own quality control. No 'Fork' button on

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Lee Fallat
Git (and other CVSs) are inherently decentralized. Don't use a service like Github if you want a decentralized repository. Like someone else was saying, torrenting involves people to seed, and when they don't the torrent dies (in our case, a repository). This isn't what anyone wants...

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Jack L. Frost
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 08:57:12PM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > Well, GitHub is the sourceforge of the tens... so the most sucking > aspect about GitHub as of today is its content. Every hipster can host > his crapware there. And it feels like 95% of all GitHub repos are > actually some kind of h

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > The good thing about elite projects is, that only a bunch of people > will actually clone per day ;) > ...which stumps the argument about whether to implement bittorrent for a bunch of clones per day. Bt's "decentral" design only makes sen

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 31 May 2015 at 17:00, Martti Kühne wrote: > ... >> Also what's wrong with git repos at a central project-related place? > > It's good thinking by OP, there's just too much traffic to host dwm > everywhere if 100,000 people per minue are cloning. Having 100k people cloning per minute is quite a

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 31 May 2015 at 17:53, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe wrote: > Quoth Anselm R Garbe on Sun, May 31 2015 16:53 +0200: >> >> What has suckless with github in common I wonder? I hope nothing >> apart from using git. > > > What do you find most sucking about GitHub? I'm curious. Well, GitHub is the source

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Aditya Goturu
Sorry, messed up something about plain text. Here is my message: What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if there is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know it. Or do you mean the community of github is bad? On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:17 P

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Aditya Goturu
What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if there is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know it. Or do you mean the community of github is bad? On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Aditya Goturu wrote: > What are the exact reasons why github i

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread FRIGN
On Sun, 31 May 2015 21:09:25 +0800 Ivan Tham wrote: Hi Ivan, > I think that would make the projects in suckless more decentralized. > I am just giving and idea but I still think the current system is > better, using gittorrent may let the projects which are inspired by > suckless work together i

[dev] [st] segfault with true color output

2015-05-31 Thread s j
When I execute a true color printf in st, I get a core dump. Command in question (this is in bash): printf "\e[38;2;255;255;255mTRUECOLOR" I'm on git sha caa97cc781ccf29f28c3d9e6683a66eb3f70e2bd. CFLAGS were the same as in the default config.mk, but with -O0. Config patch and full backtrace attac

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
Anselm, Quoth Anselm R Garbe on Sun, May 31 2015 16:53 +0200: What has suckless with github in common I wonder? I hope nothing apart from using git. What do you find most sucking about GitHub? I'm curious. Regards, -- Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Martti Kühne
> ...everywhere... that should obviously git.suckless.org there. :-) cheers! mar77i

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Martti Kühne
... > Also what's wrong with git repos at a central project-related place? > It's good thinking by OP, there's just too much traffic to host dwm everywhere if 100,000 people per minue are cloning. cheers! mar77i

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 31 May 2015 at 15:09, Ivan Tham wrote: > http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/ > > Hi, I think that would make the projects in suckless more decentralized. > I am just giving and idea but I still think the current system is > better, using gitt

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Ivan Tham
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 03:31:42PM +0200, Teodoro Santoni wrote: Rather not like the implementation in node javascript. Yeah, I thought about that too. Implementing it in C. -- _ < Do what you like, like what you do. > -

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Teodoro Santoni
I like the idea (git through bittorrent) a lot. Rather not like the implementation in node javascript. My humble opinion for your proposal is neither yes not no: this is a distributed way to git-pull that can be built upon the classic git. So anyone who would mirror a suckless project git into bt

[dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Ivan Tham
http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/ Hi, I think that would make the projects in suckless more decentralized. I am just giving and idea but I still think the current system is better, using gittorrent may let the projects which are inspired by s