Neofetch development discontinued, repository archived

@pro_grammer@programming.dev · 7M

Neofetch development discontinued, repository archived

@moreeni@lemm.ee · 7M

Does it have to be developed further? Neofetch looks like a finished product.

𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 · 7M

On first sight yes, in reality: no.

Treeniks · 7M

according to the Asahi guy, it doesn’t work correctly for ARM: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111018734178152229

I am utterly oblivious to how neofetch works, but it does seem to need updates to support newer tech.

@Classy@sh.itjust.works · 7M

Doesn’t affect me since I’m on EndeavourOS and they discontinued ARM support anyway!

ReallyZen · edit-2 7M

Works on mine

Édit: (10)… Ah, I see the point, indeed.

@embed_me@programming.dev · 7M

True for all programs

Otter · edit-2 7M

It would need to keep up with future changes and any security updates

@moreeni@lemm.ee · 7M

Well, it does its job for now. As for the security updates… Isn’t neofetch just a little fancy tool to display data from your system that is already exposed to any process on your distribution? What attack surface does it introduce?

Otter · 7M

Going by the releases, it didn’t need updates that often, but it still needed updates to fix and ensure compatibility as things changed

Security wise, I think you’re right

exu · 7M

It still had issues like handling 8-bit colors in ascii art incorrectly last I checked a few years back, with that pr already being a few years old then.

Alex · 7M

I wonder which of the many fetch tools support 24bit terminal colours.