On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 07:11:28AM +0100, Adrien Destugues wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 08:39:56PM -0800, Pete Goodeve wrote:Yeah, I know, having a 'stable' archive was a big win. But -- at least at the
It's certainly true that BeShare doesn't get that much traffic these
days, but I assume it's an awareness problem. If everyone realizes
it's an alternative to the depot, I don't see why it couldn't become
a useful source -- especially for all that stuff that isn't so vulnerable
to DLL Hell [to borrow from that OS we won't mention...]
There is a problem with BeShare, however: there is no archiving of the
files. A lot of BeOS things are currently "lost", or just sleeping on
some backup floppies or 300MB hard drives from the BeOS era. At least
with Haikuware, we had everything hosted on a single server and no
problems with people going offline.