As a developer (mostly ARM9 baremetal libraries currently, KGB uses it for example, and one WIP bootloader for a9lh), I actually have my hands bound by my work contract. I cannot take any money from outside sources without going through some "conflict-of-interest" stuff with legal at work. Thus I personally favor the "advertising to survive" route, at least for the general case. I'm not sure who else in the scene is bound by said contract clauses, or if they care. Just my 2 cents. Otherwise having a centralized place for listing all open source homebrew isn't a bad idea, but why only GitHub? Is it not possible to hook into things that use GitLab, for example? Or BitBucker? In other words, why couple your design/service/thingamabob with a particular company/service?
We started with github bevause most people are using that.As a developer (mostly ARM9 baremetal libraries currently, KGB uses it for example, and one WIP bootloader for a9lh), I actually have my hands bound by my work contract-- I cannot take any money from outside sources without going through some "conflict-of-interest" stuff with legal at work. Thus I personally favor the "advertising to survive" route, at least for the general case. I'm not sure who else in the scene is bound by said contract clauses, or if they care. Just my 2 cents.
Having a centralized place for listing all open source homebrew isn't a bad idea, but why only GitHub? Is it not possible to hook into things that use GitLab, for example? Or BitBucket? In other words, why couple your design/service/thingamabob with a particular company/service?
EDIT: 2 AM me can't spell nor grammar
one of the ideas we had a while ago was (if there was profit enough for) to invest in others work.As a developer (mostly ARM9 baremetal libraries currently, KGB uses it for example, and one WIP bootloader for a9lh), I actually have my hands bound by my work contract-- I cannot take any money from outside sources without going through some "conflict-of-interest" stuff with legal at work. Thus I personally favor the "advertising to survive" route, at least for the general case. I'm not sure who else in the scene is bound by said contract clauses, or if they care. Just my 2 cents.
There's a pre existing homebrew title database at https://titledb.com, it already holds an index of nearly all available CIA builds and allows direct install of apps from far more places than just github.
We don't even accept donations --'Also, I'm not going to try to force advertising or donations to keep it up.
I'm not sure if you've actually visited the site, and read the thread, but this is an early version.Don't be fooled by shinier reimplementations that can't keep up on technical merit.
We've got that too.Name one? Sure, server side transit decompression of linked zip files, so it can index and direct link inside a zip and be installed via the current unmodified version of FBI
Please enlighten me why people would have offense to thatYou're just making a local mirror of the file. That's not proxy decompression, you're just hosting an unzipped copy. I'm sure a few HB developers will take offense to that.
Hosting a local copy messes up download stats, proxy-unzipping will keep the hit to the original server and preserve download stats.Please enlighten me why people would have offense to that
Pretty sure most licenses for homebrew apps allow redistribution. Can be an uncool move without getting permission though.Redistributing someone else's copyrighted apps? Nah, that's entirely cool. No one will take offense there.
Every thirty minutes, my script scans every 30 minutesRedistributing someone else's copyrighted apps? Nah, that's entirely cool. No one will take offense there.
You know what it also does? Make sure the download works.Redistributing someone else's copyrighted apps? Nah, that's entirely cool. No one will take offense there.
This is what happens:Hosting a local copy messes up download stats, proxy-unzipping will keep the hit to the original server and preserve download stats.
Pretty sure most licenses for homebrew apps allow redistribution. Can be an uncool move without getting permission though.
Is it really redistribution though? we download the application every time from the original github release page, we just do that in the background and give the user a copy of the file which is max 30 minutes old.Pretty sure most licenses for homebrew apps allow redistribution. Can be an uncool move without getting permission though.
There's two types of developers really, the ones who will attack someone for having a similar idea (This thread at the moment), then the ones who are like "Cool, competition" (CIAngel vs FreeShop, anyone?).That is the problem with the 3ds homebrew community. People just want stuff and don't contribute. You can't contribute without being attacked by someone else
There's two types of developers really, the ones who will attack someone for having a similar idea (This thread at the moment), then the ones who are like "Cool, competition" (CIAngel vs FreeShop, anyone?).
My irritation comes from the fact that people on this site in particular like to poorly clone my creations and claim them as their own unique ideas.
There's two types of developers really, the ones who will attack someone for having a similar idea (This thread at the moment), then the ones who are like "Cool, competition" (CIAngel vs FreeShop, anyone?).