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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Same.
In the same vein, I dislike the trend of software development moving towards online repositories for dependencies. Mostly, developers only post their own code on github. You download it, and it's like 100 kB. Then you start toe compile it, and it downloads 250 dependences (and dependencies the dependencies depend on), and that small 100 kB program suddenly takes 15 minutes to compile on a modern computer, and unexpectedly produces a 15 MB binary.
Who's going to guarantee me that I can still rebuild this program in another 5, 10, or even 20 years, after the online repository has been abandoned, or the versions that particular program needs are offline and not available?
I don't yet know a solution to this problem, because some systems just don't even work if they can't check their online repository.
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Yep. everything in the cloud. It's a problem. The versions issue is going to be a major problem.
One solution is to keep a local git repository server and point at that. That's how we handled it at work, but over time, it's not sustainable. Of course, most of that stuff won't be working in 5 years or so anyway. The good news is that I don't work there anymore!
People tend to act like their internet connection will always be up and always be fast. I mean, what are you going to do when the zombie apocalypse hits?
Me, I download all digital content that I purchase and remove the DRM - music, eBooks, audiobooks and movies.