• yarr@feddit.nl
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    1 day ago

    It’s a scary amount of projects these days managed by a bunch of ZIP files:

    • Program-2.4.zip
    • Program-2.4-FIXED.zip
    • Program-2.4-FIXED2.zip
    • Program-2.4-FIXED-final.zip
    • Program-2.4-FIXED-final-REAL.zip
    • Program-2.4-FIXED-FINAL-no-seriously.zip
    • Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this.zip
    • Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this-2.zip
    • Program-2.4-working-maybe.zip
    • Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE.zip
    • Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE-v2.zip
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      • Program-1.5-DeleteThis.zip
      • Program-1.6-ScuffedDontUse.zip
      • CanWeDeleteThesePlease.txt (last edit 8 months ago)

      Inspired by a small collaboration project from a few years ago.

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      21 hours ago

      If we’re talking actual builds then zip files are perfectly fine as long as the revs make chronological sense.

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        3 hours ago

        I’m not. I’m talking about in companies where dev A wants dev B to do some work, but they don’t use git or any kind of source control, so you email over a cursed ZIP file, then dev B does the work and sends it back with a different name. It’s a highly cursed situation.