Re: Lua library bank? (Was: Ruby philosophy vs Lua philosophy

["Aaron B." <aaron@...>]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 02:00:25 +0900
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:

> Just because a package downloader stores the packages to be downloaded
> in github doesn't mean the package developers have to use github or
> git to do their development.  You can easily just use github, and the
> git protocol, as a pure distribution mechanism that happens to have
> some nice extra features.
> 
> [Even if you use them as a simple distribution mechanism, using GH /
> git has some big advantages (robustness, future-proofness,
> documentation, familiarity, widespread support, tooling, etc) over
> adhoc distribution sites and/or mechanisms, simply because they're so
> very widely used.]

Please allow me to disagree: I've never used git as I never found a
reason to move off SVN (But let's not go offtopic about that.)

My main point is that I don't trust Github to be around
forever/robust/familiar, etc. Even Amazon has had outages.
Remember when Yahoo was the king of search engines?

I still don't see any advantages of Github above a generic tarball
format + URL for distribution.

-- 
Aaron B. <aaron@zadzmo.org>