On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:08:10AM +0100, Mark Hellegers wrote:
Probably worth reminding folks that BeShare is still active. You can
share
zips and hpkgs there. Several people have put up hpkgs they have
built.
New stuff is likely to get mirrored, even if the original source is
not always
on-line.
Hello Pete,
while BeShare can be used to get packages from, it suffers from the
same problem as the suggestion by Stefano that I don't need a
repository. Ordinary users will look for new software in HaikuDepot and
it it is not there it might as well not exist. This is the same
situation as existed with BeOS and Bebits. If it wasn't on Bebits it
didn't exist. I know I am exaggerating a bit here, but that's basically
how it worked.
I have similar worries. There are just too many roadblocks at the moment.
When I write an application, I want to upload my application somewhere
where users are most likely to find it. We had that with Bebits and
later Haikuware and now we have HaikuDepot.
Unfortunately, getting your application listed in HaikuDepot is much
harder at the moment than it was for Bebits and I only have experience
with porting open source software using Haikuporter. I don't even know
how to get closed source software on there, unless I want to start my
own repository and tell users to add the url to HaikuDepot. I find that
to be a big roadblock to releasing software for Haiku and I doubt that
will scale when there are many third party developers releasing
software.
