Open Source @lemmy.ml pro_grammer @programming.dev 7mo ago

Neofetch development discontinued, repository archived

github.com GitHub - dylanaraps/neofetch: 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+ - dylanaraps/neofetch

The author's profile says this:

"Have taken up farming."

Linux @lemmy.ml pro_grammer @programming.dev 7mo ago

Neofetch development discontinued, repository archived

github.com /dylanaraps/neofetch

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Finally it's official. I think it's a good move to make it an archived repository, so everyone knows for a fact this is not developed anymore. That means bugs or security issues are no longer actively searched and corrected. I wonder if this program will be taken out from distribution repositories now. My personal alternative is fastfetch .

Edit: ... oh, I didn't realize all of his repositories are now archived. Not only neofetch: https://github.com/dylanaraps?tab=repositories
- Hopefully the dev is doing well, and has luck with whatever he's doing now
  
  Looking at the readme edit history: https://github.com/dylanaraps/dylanaraps/commits/master/
  
  First edit 3 years ago: Away till the New Year. Merry Christmas.
  
  Then next edit 10 month ago replacing that line with: On hiatus.
  
  Then next edit 4 days ago replacing that line with: Have taken up farming.
  
  English is not my native language, and I don't understand what "Have taken up farming.", but I have my guesses. means. Normally I don't interpret such a situation, but it doesn't look good. Most contributions of the software is 3 years old, and only a few readme and link updates recently are made alongside making everything archived.
- Impressive, fastfetch even displays the battery%.
there should be some kind of notification system whenever something goes unmaintained. ive used unmaintained software for way too long before finding out theres some fork.
- As long as it works perfectly and it makes no security related headlines, i'm fine with running abandoned ware.
  
  If something stops working it's time to find out the alternatives.
  
  Not every little tool needs weekly updates
  
  the finding out alternatives is the annoying part for me, you always have to be on some niche place online (eg lemmy) to discover them. that and ive used a lot of security sensitive abandonware i really wouldnt otherwise.
  
  As long as it works perfectly and it makes no security related headlines, i’m fine with running abandoned ware.
  
  That means Windows XP is perfectly okay as abandon ware, becuase it makes no security related headlines. :p (just joking!)
  
  This
- On arch's user repository, packages can get marked as out of date, unmaintained, and sometimes removed entirely.
  
  i didnt know that, is the user notified somehow?
Software which achieved no actual purpose discontinued. Open source community in tears.
Where's the new rust version?
- https://crates.io/search?q=neofetch brings up 21 versions to choose from (21 are actual neofetch clones). There is also a library to help you write even more of them.
Farming what though?
- He now runs a beet farm/B&B with his cousin.
  
  Sounds like a nice life? I don't have much idea what beet farming is like...
- Lead
  
  Better than bitcoin I suppose
go get FastFetch
Why would this little bash script that does nothing extraordinary need constant updates? Some pieces of software might just be complete as they are.

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