Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 2 (2.91.0) has been released (discourse.imfreedom.org) 21 points by rw_grim 1y ago ↗ HN
[–] AbuAssar 1y ago ↗ I wonder why in the age of github and gitlab some opensource projects still use SourceForge [–] mattl 1y ago ↗ Because moving stuff takes time and with a small project like this who is going to setup the infrastructure for that?Also SourceForge supports version control that isn’t git.Pidgin has actually moved their source code to Mercurial so is using Sourceforge for binary releases.https://docs.imfreedom.org/contributors-guide/mercurial/
[–] mattl 1y ago ↗ Because moving stuff takes time and with a small project like this who is going to setup the infrastructure for that?Also SourceForge supports version control that isn’t git.Pidgin has actually moved their source code to Mercurial so is using Sourceforge for binary releases.https://docs.imfreedom.org/contributors-guide/mercurial/
[–] stuaxo 1y ago ↗ It's great this is still going, I should probably give it a go - I used to use pidgin for quite a few years.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 20.6 ms ] threadAlso SourceForge supports version control that isn’t git.
Pidgin has actually moved their source code to Mercurial so is using Sourceforge for binary releases.
https://docs.imfreedom.org/contributors-guide/mercurial/