deikoepfiges_dreirad ,

Why would this little bash script that does nothing extraordinary need constant updates? Some pieces of software might just be complete as they are.

riodoro1 ,

Software which achieved no actual purpose discontinued. Open source community in tears.

ClockworkOtter ,

Farming what though?

Grippler ,

He now runs a beet farm/B&B with his cousin.

ClockworkOtter ,

Sounds like a nice life? I don't have much idea what beet farming is like...

beeng ,

Where's the new rust version?

56_ ,
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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.

umbrella ,
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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.

Reawake9179 ,

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

dessalines ,
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On arch's user repository, packages can get marked as out of date, unmaintained, and sometimes removed entirely.

umbrella ,
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i didnt know that, is the user notified somehow?

dessalines ,
@dessalines@lemmy.ml avatar

When you run pacman or one of the aur helpers, it'll tell you.

Sanctus ,
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thingsiplay ,
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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

otter ,
@otter@lemmy.ca avatar

Hopefully the dev is doing well, and has luck with whatever he's doing now

thingsiplay ,
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Looking at the readme edit history: https://github.com/dylanaraps/dylanaraps/commits/master/

  1. First edit 3 years ago: Away till the New Year. Merry Christmas.
  2. Then next edit 10 month ago replacing that line with: On hiatus.
  3. 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.

bjorney ,

English is not my native language, and I don't understand what "Have taken up farming."

It means they aren't developing software anymore because they are growing vegetables instead

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