varakiJul 19, 2023

Bromite's fork is going to be branded as Cromite

https://lemmy.world/post/1766092

Bromite's fork is going to be branded as Cromite - Lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1766078 [https://lemmy.world/post/1766078] > Bromite’s actively maintained fork is going to have its own branding starting from next release according to the latest release notes [https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools/releases/tag/v115.0.5790.98-30d36db90516e651c2cd676a677268b3ea7cf75b]: > > >>Please note: this is the last release, the next one will be in https://github.com/uazo/cromite [https://github.com/uazo/cromite]

Show threadprivacyfalcon9899Jul 19, 2023
Still don’t understaand why devs prefer fork in instead of improving existing apps and duplicate efforts.
Show threadvaraki
It’s exactly what you said: improving an existing app. For certain reasons, the original Bromite branding can’t be used and since the original project’s developer is basically left the project, this was the only way: forking and rebranding. The owner of this fork project was one of the main, most active contributors to Bromite anyway, so it should be fine.
Jul 19, 2023 at 1:10pmWeb
Show thread𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏Jul 21, 2023
Something similar happened with youtube-dlc, allowing yt-dlp to be born