Move dsource WindowsAPI to github?

Rikki Cattermole alphaglosined at gmail.com
Tue Sep 3 06:56:23 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 13:41:09 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic 
wrote:
> It seems development is still held at dsource:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi
>
> Recent changesets:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/timeline?from=09%2F03%2F13&daysback=90&wiki=on&changeset=on&milestone=on&ticket=on&update=Update
>
> I've used a personal mirror here so I can clone or use it as a 
> submodule:
> https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/WindowsAPI
>
> After a while I started adding my own commits because of some 
> nasty
> code breakage, but that means my repo is not in sync with the 
> dsource
> version.
>
> Worst of all, people seem to think I'm the author of 
> WindowsAPI, and
> now someone even made a pull adding Dub suport:
> https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/WindowsAPI/pull/2
>
> So I suggest the dsource WinAPI team to move to Github (or 
> maybe some
> other more visible hosting service like Bitbucket).
>
> That way people can use submodules, and they can also use Dub 
> if the
> dev team adds this support. Most importantly we'll have a single
> source of the bindings, rather than have a dozen personal clones
> scattered around github (I'm not the only one with a publicly 
> hosted
> WinAPI clone, I've noticed there are others as well).
>
> Meanwhile I'll delete my clone from github, as people are 
> confused and
> think it's an official repository. I'd use a private repo to 
> begin
> with, but there's no free private repos on github (yeah 
> Bitbucket has
> them but I'm not fond of hosting my projects on 10 different 
> places).

I was aware it wasn't original repo. I just didn't want to ask 
for a change to github for original when mirror worked perfectly 
fine.

I should have mentioned this sorry.

Yes I'm lazy and just want dub to work with it imho.


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