There's bitbucket.org, codeberg.org, gitlab.com, sr.ht, gitea.io, among others. (They don't also arguably illegaly feed your code to their commercial products.) There can't not exist some way to test whether or not a URI points to a repository. Most, if not all use have a suffix of 'username/repositoryname', you could make a fall-through case of github if no explicit domain is given.
That said, one could easily manage updates with a short shell script: go to plugins dir, sequentially cd and pull --rebase. I don't use any myself, so I'm unfamilar with what pacman can do exclusively. My 2c. Aug 26, 2022, 08:02 by [email protected]: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 10:17 PM 'Viktor Grigorov' via General > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> github is a monopoly, but not the sole code hosting website. Allowing for >> any remote or local repository would be more prudent. >> > > Sure... hmm... > > Currently, github is the only repo supported by pacman. > > Perhaps it would be wise to first support some second hosting repo? > Call it "Step 0" ... > > But, which one? > > (Seems to me that github is almost an anti-monopoly -- in the sense > that competitors tend to distinguish themselves by being more > difficult and/or more costly to use.) > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
