Thread: Say goodbye to Google Code

Google Open Source Blog: Bidding farewell to Google Code

That hosting service has tons of good projects (code and otherwise) that are no longer maintained by their creators. The decision to close it makes sense to me, what I don't understand is why they won't leave it perpetually in readonly mode.

By the end of 2016 when the tarballs themselves cease to be supplied, the whole thing will just be swallowed by the veritable blackhole of a subdomain blackout. Guess they will leave it for someone else to care about it... So nice of Google.

O_o

I'm scrambling to grab a mirror for a lot of different, now abandoned, projects I thought were neat at the time.

Soma

Yeah. There's heaps of stuff in there of mine too. Some I even forgot about. But I advise everyone else to also grab any stuff in there from other people that you feel you might need. You never know when or if it will just disappear.

Originally Posted by Mario F.

The decision to close it makes sense to me, what I don't understand is why they won't leave it perpetually in readonly mode.

Hear, hear!

Making my own copies of direct dependencies is one thing (got bitten before), but with Python and pip install, I tend to be lazily dependent on the indirect dependencies being available.