Mirror of _why's projects

by jcl • 17 years ago

116 12 17 years ago

Interesting; even though all repositories have been wiped from _why's Github accounts, the hpricot wiki is still alive: http://wiki.github.com/why/hpricot I hope it stays that way, I wouldn't be able to figure out how to use it just by looking at the method definitions.

kidko• 17 years ago

As is the wiki for Shoes (http://wiki.github.com/why/shoes)... I don't know if they were forgotten, or this was on purpose to help people who were going to keep the projects alive.

SlyShy• 17 years ago

The Camping page is alive still, too. http://camping.rubyforge.org/files/README.html

Titanous2• 17 years ago

Does anyone have a copy of the code for Try Ruby? It was at http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/tryruby/trunk

bphogan• 17 years ago

I'd really love to find this too.

unalone• 17 years ago

Thirded. I was going to show my brother this at the end of the summer, and I'd hate to find it gone.

mechanical_fish• 17 years ago

I'm glad we have the code; fortunately most of it was in git. (Wasn't it Torvalds who claimed his method of backup was to release his code and let other people mirror it for free?)

But... do we have the writing?

If this is an elaborate practical joke designed to make me really glad that I own a dead-trees version of Nobody Knows Shoes and that I physically printed out a copy of the Poignant Guide... it's working really well.

Also, this isn't the kind of press I'd like to see for github... but, man, is this a clear demonstration of why DVCS rocks.

thenduks• 17 years ago

I love all this _why stuff on the front page (no sarcasm)! Thank you HN!

_why was a truly prolific member of the Ruby community. Assuming he's actually 'gone', he'll be missed and his work appreciated for a long time to come.

judofyr• 17 years ago

Don't use the Camping over there, it's an old version. If you want the newest version clone judofyr/camping, or grab the gem from my gem server (gems.judofyr.net). Camping is very much alive, we,ll just have to clean up the documentation a bit and then we'll release 2.0 (I have access to the RubyForge project).

If anyone wants to help out, just join the mailing list at RubyForge.

mrflip2• 17 years ago

I've merged yours to be the head of whymirror/camping, and made you admin. Thanks for carrying the torch!

Titanous2• 17 years ago

Does anyone have a copy of the Shoes dependencies tarball for OS X?

deps-osx-intel-1.6.4-1.20.2.tar.gz

mrflip2• 17 years ago

A testament to the #ruby community: http://bit.ly/whymir

In 2 days _why's projects all recovered and 15/23 have new maintainers. Ongoing progress will be posted at http://whymirror.github.com/

Mirror of _why's projects

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