Pandora Repo

[Swordfish II]

My question is this: once the pyra launches (or in the next few years after) will the Pandora repo be discontinued?

It would be a shame to do so. The Pandora is fantastic and very useful even now.

 

[Wally]

.... No?
EvilDragon hosts the Repo and would hate to see all that software disappear.

 

[elw3]

Why do you even assume it would?

 

[TeDaDeS]

The GP32 forum is also still here so I would assume ED will keep hosting the repo also.
But it would never hurt to have an alternative option just in case anything happens to it (like a giant backup file that people could download).

 

[elw3]

Actually this is the second repo.
There is still http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi
Which even contains stuff not found in the "new" one.

 

[Swordfish II]

Why do you even assume it would?

It costs money to host, and now there is another repo coming online soon

 

[elw3]

True, but its not like ED is going "oh i am out of money, lets shut this whole stuff off" without saying a word.
And even if he does theoretically, this forum is full of computer nerds who are willing to keep hosting it.

 

[EvilDragon]

I also still have full backups at home, so whatever happens, it's always possible to setup another host elsewhere (well, unless I suddenly die, of course)

 

[PowerGod]

(well, unless I suddenly die, of course)

This is something we should decide all together with a POLL, don't be selfish !!

 

[Kippykip]

The host I'm paying for has infinite space for $5.95 a month, so I wouldn't see any reason why Ed and the staff would remove the repo.
Well unless they were hosting it in their own basements or something.

 

[FBnil]

Well unless they were hosting it in their own basements or something

Wasn't that where E.D. kept @MWeston during the Pandora project? Has it been vacated?

 

[Christoph.Krn]

The host I'm paying for has infinite space for $5.95 a month, so I wouldn't see any reason why Ed and the staff would remove the repo.
Well unless they were hosting it in their own basements or something.

It's self-hosted on the Server at Ed's main company, https://www.gepixelt.de/ , along with this forum, the Dragonbox shop, and several other things.

 

[alxm]

Why do you even assume it would?

Billion-dollar companies drop support and shut down servers after only a few years, so while around here we assume that ED will keep the homebrew archives running (as he has for almost 15 years ), most of the world thinks and acts in a very different way

 

[elw3]

Its not a money problem there, in a big company no one actually cares about the product.
Say they have large Team responsible for the website and then we get a question like: "What do we do with this link to a documentation of a device we produced 15 years ago?" then most members will likely say "I am not responsible for this one".
I doubt anyone says "drop the support now" on purpose, its just that no one maintains it.

So i think, if anyone working at a large company has a better insight he may speak up.