(06-10-2022, 05:23 AM)triggered Wrote: I actually remember before SMcNeill deleted any trace of Sprezzo from this website. I think it was about "stealing" the logo, which is actually still visible on the main webpage.
Nobody stole any logo. LOL! The old logo was downloaded from an open website that posted backgrounds in good faith. Sprezzo found the same logo on a different site, with different use permissions, so it was discarded and replaced by a version our users produced instead.
(06-10-2022, 05:23 AM)triggered Wrote: It might also have been about attempting to wipe out the repo history to make it appear is if SMcNeill created QB64 itself. I also remember a somewhat humorous flare-up regarding links, or something. Or lists, was it. Seeing how qb64.com is actually a repo, we can see it is changing by the minute, someone is busy over there...
The repo history was never wiped out. When we cloned the repo, I didn't bother to branch off and copy the old repo -- there's 500+ MB of history there, which is truly unnecessary to keep, in my opinion. A simple link saying, "Branched from here," should have been good enough for anyone who was interested in the old historical changes with QB64, without everyone needing to dedicate so much diskspace and bandwidth to downloading and working on the repository. Folks didn't like this decision, so we ended up merging histories in the end after all, but I honestly still feel as if it was just a wasted and unnecessary effort which only increases disk space and places a burden on any user who downloads the repo. If you're a college student who gets your version of the repo while downloading from your local coffee shop's internet, or from the local library's internet, then download speeds and limits can be a real concern.
In my opinion, anyone who was curious about QB64 history's of changes could have just as easily went to github and viewed the history at any of the other 100 branches out there, without us needing to host it personally, but it is what it is now. Folks wanted that history attached for some reason, and so it was merged and is part of what we have now -- for right or wrong.
(06-10-2022, 05:23 AM)triggered Wrote: Seeing how qb64.com is actually a repo, we can see it is changing by the minute, someone is busy over there...
I'm glad they're busy over there! Honestly! After all, we don't have a repo of our own, and you can't see how often we're pushing changes and updates into the language, and we're not busy working on anything at all around here. From my count, we've only had 28 updates in the repo so far this month. We've barely done anything at all!
Got to admit though, I do it find it funny that you praise the guys over at QB64.com so highly for their work and their repo. You do realize that they're simply taking things thatwe've done and adding it into their repo as their own, right?? Take, for example, the reference for _BIN$ which was written and added into our wiki by RhoSigma...
_BIN$ · QB64Official/qb64 Wiki (github.com)
I guess it's not so hard for them to push out updates over there, when they're just coming along and making copies of all the things which we've been doing. It's a shame they couldn't bother to keep the links to the original site in the stuff they "used", but that's okay. I'm certain you'll let them know how important it is to preserve history and not claim work as their own after all, right??
Personally, I think it's just nice to see that they find our work so useful that they're willing to copy it, edit it, and use it for their own version as well!
Of course, not counting the wiki information that they copied, I am curious about how "busy" they've all been. Commits · QB64Official/qb64 (github.com) From the last update on their github, it appears as if it's been over a month since anyone updated or pushed any real changes into the repo there. Hardly seems, "by the minute", unless I'm missing something that is.
