Closed miccal closed 7 years ago
Thanks @commitay - I cannot verify if your link for cachewarmer
is for the same .app
, since it requires a registration.
cachewarmer
and https://www.cache-warmer.com/ are different, so I guess we can remove it.
But brew cask fetch
work for all four of them?
When the homepage is dead, I’m more inclined to remove the cask, after trying to contact the developers.
My logic being that one of the major reasons we remove/refuse casks is they’re not auditable (e.g. walled downloads). If an app does not have a homepage, then it’s like it’s walled: technically homepage
and url
do not match, because homepage
is null.
Downloading from a source without a homepage (even if one existed at one point) feels the same as downloading from a random person’s FTP server, i.e. untrustworthy.
That’s why I’d remove it after trying to contact the developers, to make sure the dead homepage isn’t a temporary fluke.
@vitorgalvao agreed.
I am not on Twitter/Facebook/any social media, so I am not sure what is the best way to chase these up?
@miccal Since we don’t have a website to check for contacts, I’d either do a quick web search or search Twitter (you can do so without an account) as it’s common for companies to have contact info on their bio.
For example bleep seems pretty dead. People are asking about it on Twitter; the iOS app was last updated over a year ago; the blog last mentions it over two years ago.
Neutrinometrics has a single tweet and I can’t find much more about them. Ditto with the other two.
I think it’s safe to remove them all.
Thanks @commitay and @vitorgalvao for the help.
The following Casks have a dead
homepage
but a functioningurl
:@commitay can you confirm that the
homepage
's are dead?