[clug] How you know your Free or Open Source Software Project is doomed to FAIL

Michael Cohen scudette at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 01:16:15 UTC 2015


I'm sorry I fail to understand how this is any worst than hosting your
installer on plain HTTP. Piping a curl installer to shell is not better or
worse than distributing your software on plain HTTP or downloads.com or
something.
Am 29.07.2015 8:29 vorm. schrieb "Steve Walsh" <steve at nerdvana.org.au>:

> On 07/29/2015 03:56 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>
>> Words fail me.
>>
>> Name and Shame?
>>
> Github is littered with them, but even more mainstream does it. Dell OMSA,
> for a start (http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/omsa.html)
>
> "Set up the Dell OpenManage Repository at
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/ like this:
>
> 1.
>
>    wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi
> | bash
>
> "
>
> For those who many not understand why this is a problem,Tim Serong, a
> Tassie OpenSuse hacker, has prepared http://tserong.github.io/sudo-wget/
>
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