While I do find it odd that this project doesn't use github, because github requires an account, but SourceHut currently also requires to sign up for an account to submit issues or to submit to the mailing list, I don't think the fact that the demo asks for a GitHub token is really "nefarious".
The demo runs even without passing the token (you get a bunch of messages, but you also get some results) and looking at the code, the token is currently only used to authenticate the GitHub library in order to get extra capacity. And I guess you can always fork the code clean up the nastiness :) -- Raffaele On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 5:33 PM Wojciech S. Czarnecki <o...@fairbe.org> wrote: > On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 06:16:43 -0700 (PDT) > m...@eliasnaur.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm very happy to announce the first public release of Gio, a project > for > > writing portable, hardware accelerated, immediate mode GUI programs in > Go. > > @elias_naur > Sounds interesting. **BUT** > > [Quote from README.md in the repo] > > > supply a Github token with the `-token` flag: > > $ go run gioui.org/apps/gophers -token <github token> > > I will gladly translate "supply a Github token...": > > "If you want to see my demo trust me and possibly give > me access to all your repositories hosted on github. > Remember to trust me!" > > Because my code is not on github but sits somewhere in Philadelphia > datacenter bunker under domain registered on Haitan TLD by an unknown > European private person. Uph! At least https://gioui.org/ points to G > cloud > 216.239.32.0/19 network... but it then redirects to Quonix, Philly. > > I recognize real Elias Naur name from this list and other places. > I do not recall him loudly going out of github, but I know real > Elias Naur still commits to the Go source tree and other github places. > > So — regarding this announcement — I may assume that at best it might > be a kind of research in "password for chocolate"[1] style. But what if it > is not? > > I wish I was mistaken. > > [1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160512085123.htm > > > -- > Wojciech S. Czarnecki > << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
