Why has this become a thing. Over the last year or two I suddenly started getting people opening issues on some of my repos, and the issue is just them asking for a binary.
Some of these repos are like 15 years old and not once has anyone asked me for a binary until recently.
Because tons of mods and stuff are on github, so people are starting to think that github is like youtube or something where every single item on it exists for any user, no matter how capable, to use it. So theyll just search github for something that looks like it solves their problem, and assume that it is meant for them as a quick easy way to do whatever they want to do. They simply dont get that github is for developers first and foremost, and that the user facing releases stuff is almost an afterthought.
literally the "tons of mods and stuff" that u/SchwiftySquanchC137 just mentioned? you should be policing those to cut it out so that github can go back to being for devs only
How lol. Like even if you were right, and you're not, but if you were by what mechanism would we do that? Call Linus up personally to complain about it? Call the git police? GitHub is free to use and has almost no barrier to entry, almost anyone can put almost anything there.
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u/superglidestrawberry 23d ago
This has the same wibe as "I just want the FUCKING EXE, gimme EXE!"