[GNC] A repository for user-contributed files

[Dr. David Kirkby]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 at 16:17, D. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
wrote:

> For what it's worth, I went to the wiki page that another David (how many
> of us subscribe to this list!?!?) referenced. At the top of that page are
> links for outside projects on Sourceforge.net and Git. The first takes you
> to a list of 40 projects; the second to a listing of 578. I'm not
> evaluating what those projects are or claim to do, but it seems to me that
> there are potentially a lot of resources already shared in those places.


I have not checked the github  ones, but if you follow the links on
Sourceforge, you will find a very large fraction are links to commercial
accounting software. Today I was looking on there for software to model
heat transfer. 90% of that was either links to accounting software, or
links to commercial software related to what I wanted.


I am the author of several projects on Sourceforge

Transmission line calculator
http://atlc.sourceforge.net/

Chess database
https://sourceforge.net/projects/chessdb/

Noise figure meter
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hp8970/

Antenna analyzer
https://sourceforge.net/projects/yagiuda/

but I would never put anything else on there.  Source gorge seems little
more than an ad-machine now. Here’s a  few screenshots when I try finding
my own software on there.

Someone mentioned that the user interface to github was not very friendly,
and the fact it owned by Microsoft.

My intension when setting up the space was to try to be helpful.  Although
one person emailed me to say thank you for setting up some file space, I
sense a bit of resentment by others. If the offer is thought not to be
useful, I can easily delete the subdomain.

Dave



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Dr. David Kirkby,
Kirkby Microwave Ltd,
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