[gopher] cgod - a new prototype gopher daemon

[Kim Holviala]

Well, I provide normal .tar.gz downloads in both gopher and http. The only reason I have a git repo is because someone asked for it nicely (I don’t use git).  And no, I didn’t know what “hg” was, and yep, I’m the old fat bearded guy who dislikes anything invented during the last 20 years.

My current hatred #1? Slack. What the fuck is it? Their homepage doesn’t say anything except some marketing bullshit, and both of the companies I work for apparently want to use it. I think it’s some chat / file upload service which is TOTALLY RAD NEW THING because we’ve never had those before, and I’msure  the security guys will love it when I tell them that using Slack means giving all of the company secrets AND files to a random U.S. based company (I’m in EU with different set of laws) and Amazon because I doubt Slack owns their own servers.

Phew. Back to beer. If anyone else is at Frankfurt airport, come to Hausmann’s in terminal A and I’ll buy you a beer.     


- Kim


> On 18 Dec 2014, at 17:46, Matt Lewandowsky <matt at greenviolet.net> wrote:
> 
> You'll get more downloads and people looking at Gophernicus if you don't force everyone to install some app called "git". What is it, anyway? It has an offensive name. ;)
> 
> In seriousness, hg is Mercurial, also known as "the other DVCS besides git". (Bitbucket, by Atlassian, for instance, supports both git and hg repos.) It's used by companies like Facebook and Mozilla for their fairly sizeable codebases, as well as open source projects such as Python, wget, nginx, and OpenJDK. It’s not exactly a no-name binary that no one knows, basically. 
> 
> If you're afraid of learning something new, you can use git-hg or git-remote-hg to interact with hg repositories (the reverse direction also works well, btw).
> 
> No need to criticize someone for using common tools that you don't happen to use yourself though. :)
> 
> Matt
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>> On 18 Dec 2014, at 14:56, James Mills <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au <mailto:prologic at shortcircuit.net.au>> wrote:
>> 
>> $ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/prologic/cgod <https://bitbucket.org/prologic/cgod>
> You’ll get more downloads and people looking at your code if you don’t force everyone to install some app called “hg”. What is it, btw?
> 
> 
> - Kim 
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