"Not having to develop a system that somehow syncs required data at all means we get to spend more time on the work that matters more to us, in this case. (i.e. funding of dev hours)"
In other words, using github as a free unlimited CDN lets them be as inefficient as they like. Such as having 16k entries in a directory ( https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/tree/master/Specs ) which every user downloads.
Package management and sync seems to suffer really badly from NIH. Dpkg is over 20 years old and yum is over a decade old. What's up with this particular wheel that people keep reinventing it seemingly without improvement?
"Not having to develop a system that somehow syncs required data at all means we get to spend more time on the work that matters more to us, in this case. (i.e. funding of dev hours)"
In other words, using github as a free unlimited CDN lets them be as inefficient as they like. Such as having 16k entries in a directory ( https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/tree/master/Specs ) which every user downloads.
Package management and sync seems to suffer really badly from NIH. Dpkg is over 20 years old and yum is over a decade old. What's up with this particular wheel that people keep reinventing it seemingly without improvement?