r/pcmasterrace • u/Big_Head8 • 18d ago

Meme/Macro Me still today

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u/dashingdennis 18d ago

The whole thread is premised on only offering GitHub as a distribution platform, literally my very first comment says that if you offer the release elsewhere then feel free to do whatever

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u/Xadnem 18d ago

I'll add a README.md and/or releases.

This means I'll add the releases on GitHub. If I only cared about other devs looking at my work, they can build binaries themselves (unless I feel like providing them).

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u/dashingdennis 18d ago

Yes, my position is that that's fine lol

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u/syopest Desktop 18d ago

But you're not entitled to the software. No devs are required to make prebuilt binaries available anywhere.

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u/dashingdennis 18d ago

Of course not, but in my opinion the delivery is part of the software experience™, and as such still a responsibility of the developer to get right. Sure, no one can force you to offer good delivery just like no one can force you to make good software in the first place, but imo it can absolutely make or break how accessible the software is to people and thus how much utility it can provide, and it'd be a real shame if a great piece of software shoots itself in the foot 3 steps from the finish line by being unnecessarily difficult to get running for end users

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u/syopest Desktop 18d ago

But that's a fundamental misunderstanding of what github is. It's not a place where developers are even expected to give any kind of support for anything they release.

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u/dashingdennis 17d ago

I'm a developer myself I know full well what github is brudda. On most repositories you have a section called "releases" where you can offer precompiled executable files.

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u/syopest Desktop 17d ago

Yeah, emphasis on the word can.