Petit Fat File System Module

Re:Petit Fat File System Module by morio on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:23PM (#24768386)

Why does the author not just put it on github/gitlab/... instead of only offering a .zip? It's 2020 last time I checked.

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Re:Petit Fat File System Module by SahAssar on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:34PM (#24768556)

Not everyone wants to work that way, and having a public git as a requirement is ridiculous. The software is FOSS, why are you complaining?

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Re:Petit Fat File System Module by morio on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:02PM (#24768963)

Never said it should be a requirement. But downloading a .zip file from a site which does not have a valid SSL certificate nor supports SSL in the first place does not instill confidence. Software security is a thing.

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Re:Petit Fat File System Module by SahAssar on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:25PM (#24769230)

Agreed about the SSL/TLS, but the comment sounded more like not having a public git was the complaint.

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Re:Petit Fat File System Module by panic on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:31PM (#24768512)

If it's that onerous to download the zip, maybe we should build a tool to browse .zip/.tgz source links instead of pressuring everyone to centralize all source code on the planet into just two web sites.

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Re:Petit Fat File System Module by tom_ on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:34PM (#24768566)

Wait, what's the other one that isn't GitHub? Sounds like we need to start working on the people still putting their stuff there!

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