[HN Gopher] Into the Sunset on May First: Bintray, JCenter, GoCe...
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       Into the Sunset on May First: Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and
       ChartCenter
        
       Author : Rapzid
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-02-03 17:46 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (jfrog.com)
        
       | Rapzid wrote:
       | This is a major PITA and is derailing a lot of other plans. I'm
       | pretty astonished that they are stopping submissions by Feb 28th.
       | Pretty amazing JCenter is going away too.
        
       | Fabricio20 wrote:
       | This is very big and will affect a lot of java projects, JCenter
       | is one of the most important central repositories currently
       | available, specially because of bintray since publishing to
       | actual maven central was quite a lot harder than bintray.
        
         | luseg wrote:
         | This actually makes the world a better place. Every serious
         | Java project is capable of meeting Maven Central's few
         | requirements and publish artifacts there. Bintray is just a
         | place to put stuff on the internet. Which serious project would
         | use artifacts from such a place?
        
           | MrDresden wrote:
           | A wast number of the applications in the Android ecosystem
           | use JCenter.
        
       | erdo wrote:
       | This really wasn't much notice to give for such a hugely
       | important thing
        
       | derkoe wrote:
       | Seems like JFrog is under massive pressure by GitHub, GitLab and
       | the big cloud providers. The big companies are starting to move
       | to those services and all the small ones are already there. No
       | one needs an on-prem artifact repo for this setup.
       | 
       | There are also rumors that JFrog will change the licensing of
       | their products in the next months.
       | 
       | The notice is really short for such a takedown - cornered animals
       | sometime make bald moves.
        
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