Software Hosting Facilities

Llama · 2012-01-26 13:32:14

Hi,

There is a lot of them, so the choice is not quite obvious. For a start, I need a free personal sandbox where it is proper to play and study such technologies as git and ABS/AUR.

Any suggestions?

fukawi2 · 2012-01-26 23:09:15

Well I'm not sure there are any hosting facilities that let you build PKGBUILD's from ABS/AUR on their servers (apart from Arch's own pkgbuild.com but that's a private server).

Personally, I use github for hosting my code, and sourceforge for distributing it.

ewaller · 2012-01-27 04:28:23

I'm a fan of bitbucket.org. It works well with git and mercurial. I keep things there private.
I do have one program on sourceforge. It is public. The interface is not nearly as nice.

fukawi2 · 2012-01-27 22:32:33

ewaller wrote:

The interface is not nearly as nice.

+1
I hate the SourceForge UI, but considering how much they do (hosting, wiki, BT, VCS, maillists etc) it's bound to be fairly complicated.

drcouzelis · 2012-01-28 01:36:41

I've only ever used SourceForge to host my projects. To me, it's "the" place to go to for free and open source software, but I realize that's not a legitimate reason to suggest using it.

Anyway, SourceForge has handled the three git / Mercurial projects I host there very well.

fukawi2 wrote:

Personally, I use github for hosting my code, and sourceforge for distributing it.

That's an interesting idea! I hadn't thought of doing that.

fukawi2 wrote:

ewaller wrote:
The interface is not nearly as nice.
I hate the SourceForge UI, but considering how much they do (hosting, wiki, BT, VCS, maillists etc) it's bound to be fairly complicated.

Have you tried SourceForge since they updated it about six (maybe) months ago? I've certainly heard similar comments about SourceForge before, and I don't doubt at all that other websites have much nicer and easier to use interfaces, but I'm just curious if you still have that opinion, even after the update.

fukawi2 · 2012-01-29 11:07:20

drcouzelis wrote:

Have you tried SourceForge since they updated it about six (maybe) months ago? I've certainly heard similar comments about SourceForge before, and I don't doubt at all that other websites have much nicer and easier to use interfaces, but I'm just curious if you still have that opinion, even after the update.

fukawi2 wrote:

Personally, I use github for hosting my code, and sourceforge for distributing it.

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