emilengler
Questions about the user base
Hey, the original author here. I am curious if there are actual users of this tool out in the wild and if so, which features of sysget do you actually use?
As you may have seen, this project has been largely unmaintained since the start of the decade, mostly due to the fact that I simply no longer have a requirement for this tool myself. I originally began working on sysget in the summer/fall of 2018, the year I began getting really deep into the rabbit hole of programming and Unix systems. Back then, I used to hop a lot between distros, which is why I made this tool in the first place. Now, the times have changed and I became a very boring macOS user 😄. Besides this, C++ is also a language I would no longer write a project in.
However, I still see pull requests and issues appear every once in a while. Also, this project still gets a new star 2-3 times per week, which is kinda amazing for a project with a such long inactivity.
Because of this, I am considering about rewriting the project (there are many code mistakes in it, because I did not know better back than) and finish it feature-wise (support for new package managers is still accepted though). After all, I see programming as an art and an artwork has to be finished. However, such a rewrite would probably include the removal of two or more features, that I consider a mistake by now, namely the translations as well as the (niche) feature to use a custom syntax. Are there any users that depend on either of the features? Besides this, I am also considering to replace the configuration system, which is currently a dialogue.
Sincerely, Emil
Hi, I really want to try this tools, but is it stable? Before, I've crashed my kernel and deadlocked my system by using apt on arch
I think you shouldn't be using APT on Arch, and installing it probably crashed the system since APT uses .DEB and DPKG which are not supported on Arch.
Personally I just found this tool, and I haven't tested it yet, but I will 100% adopt it if it works, and this tool will help me migrate to other distros not using APT :)