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RasppleII / a2server

AppleTalk server for Apple II computers
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have self-hosted archives of all tools in case they disappear #16

Closed IvanExpert closed 8 years ago

IvanExpert commented 8 years ago

All third-party software is open-source, and who knows when those web sites might go down; having anything useful locally stored would be a good idea, and script could possibly use home server as a backup for these (it does already for some items, I think).

knghtbrd commented 8 years ago

This is particularly important for things like ADTPro (located on SourceForge which has been proven unreliable and to engage in BAD business practices lately), but also allows tools that have been abandoned upstream like a2commander (already on GitHub) to be adopted.

In fact, an advantage of having these things in GitHub repositories is that even if GitHub goes away, every single person with a clone has the full repository and can continue working on it. Multiple redundant backups all over the world, with the one living on GitHub (currently the best place for it) being considered the authoritative source. I tried to explain this to Mike about all of the ORCA stuff, but either didn't understand it or really doesn't like it. Ah well.

IvanExpert commented 8 years ago

This is done for A2SERVER; I've grabbed everything it needs and as of 1.2.8 there's support for falling back (or preferring) to use ivanx.com or whatever server is specified in A2SERVER_BINARY_URL, as documented in the 1.2.8 release notes.

knghtbrd commented 8 years ago

Works for me!