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🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
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Casks with dead homepage but functioning url #39571

Closed miccal closed 7 years ago

miccal commented 7 years ago

The following Casks have a dead homepage but a functioning url:

@commitay can you confirm that the homepage's are dead?

commitay commented 7 years ago
miccal commented 7 years ago

Thanks @commitay - I cannot verify if your link for cachewarmeris for the same .app, since it requires a registration.

commitay commented 7 years ago

cachewarmer and https://www.cache-warmer.com/ are different, so I guess we can remove it.

miccal commented 7 years ago

But brew cask fetch work for all four of them?

vitorgalvao commented 7 years ago

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.

miccal commented 7 years ago

@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?

vitorgalvao commented 7 years ago

@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.

vitorgalvao commented 7 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.

miccal commented 7 years ago

Thanks @commitay and @vitorgalvao for the help.