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On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 05:15:01AM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: |
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> hi - recently i heard some guys were suffering in |
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> this list from keepassxc, which reminded me of my |
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> my own. so i finally decided to put an end to |
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> this in 404 lines of py code: |
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> https://github.com/Al-Caveman/nsapass |
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I haven't downloaded it yet, but I think you should rephrase the README on the |
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GitHub page. Instead of constantly explaining the reasons you dislike KeePassXC |
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in particular, it would be more attractive to explain the merits of your _own_ |
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program, and why people---who may have never used any password-manager---should |
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download NSAPass. There are also quite a few spelling and grammar mistakes, |
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which I suggest you fix before tagging the next release. |
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It is not my place to criticise your opposition to capital letters (although I |
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do not personally understand it myself), but if you want to garner a serious a |
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serious user-base, you will need to write your README and code comments in a |
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more professional manner. Currently, users and contributors might be repelled. |
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Irrelevant aside. You mention that one of the reasons that NSAPass is superior |
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to KeePassXC is the GitHub-generated distributions of languages: please realise |
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that this is often grossly inaccurate, and is probably not something on which |
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you should capitalise in your critique of the project. Rest assured, the entire |
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project is written in C++, with header files being erroneously classified as |
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plain C [1]. The Objective C++ is a very small proportion of the entire |
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codebase, used for MacOSX-specific builds, and everything else just consists of |
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build utilities and scripts. Thankfully, GitHub uses `linguist` for automatic |
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language-detection, which supports a manual override [2], although this feature |
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is unknown to most. |
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Although it's wonderful that you're writing good code for others to use (and one |
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of the best ways to learn programming), it is not a good idea to start your |
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endeavours by placing the logo of a seven-year-matured project with over |
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two-hundred contributors and many commercial sponsors next to some clip-art of |
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an unpleasant animalistic product (the most courteous description of which I |
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could think) and some out-of-date cheese. |
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Other than the "vanity" issues, it looks alright; you've clearly put quite a bit |
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of effort into its development. Once it's matured for a few more months, and you |
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pick up a small user-base, you could post it to Gentoo-Dev (as I did with my |
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latest project [3]) and see if it gets picked up by anyone wanting to put it |
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into the Portage tree (gentoo.git). |
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Hope this helps, |
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Ashley. |
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[1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/search?l=c |
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[2] https://github.com/github/linguist#using-gitattributes |
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[3] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/fa864fb2169d4c80075a7c97604a747d |
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Ashley Dixon |
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