[Oberon] A2 Repository

[oberon at x.colbyrussell.com]

On 5/30/19 4:44 AM, Michael Schierl wrote:
 > Would be a shame for the history of this interesting piece of software
 > to be lost forever.

Software Heritage <https://softwareheritage.org> is a new-ish group
that's working on this sort of thing.

Their work is still in the early phases, but they've got a service
running with a developer API that you can write your own client against.
One thing you *can* do, is if you have a copy of the source code repo
(or even just a partial snapshot), you can pull out a file that seems
like it would be reasonably unique to that project, find the SHA-1, and
then check the hash through the Software Heritage homepage.

For example, the contents of A2OS/tools/builds/install.txt should be
fairly unique.  Its SHA-1 is d9079c001447813b1eef04a7b2ec5f8547bae16b.
And the Software Heritage service reports that they have a copy.
Unfortunately, it looks like right now that it's not possible to follow
it back to the repo that the file originally came from, but it might be
possible using the developer API.

-- 
Colby Russell