I’ve seen some comments about how “gitlab bad” or whatnot, why do people prefer Codeberg over GitLab?

  • second@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    That’s a bit of an unfair comparison - that’s the GitLab instructions to install from source. Most people use a package (rpm, deb) to install GitLab.

    The installation instructions for GitLab from prebuilt binaries is https://about.gitlab.com/install/, and that’s significantly shorter.

    That said, I think for most home applications, GitLab is hugely overkill.

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      1 year ago

      Yes that’s true. I guess what I wanted to point out is that GitLab has dependencies like Postgres, Redis, Ruby (with Rails), Vue.js… whereas Forgejo can use just SQLite and jQuery.

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        sqlite is not something one would use for a database with a lot of users, postresql or mysql/mariadb is a better choice in these circumstances. and i don’t think having jquery as a dependency in 2023 is a positive sign. not sayibg the software is bad, it’s just different.

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          Fortunately they were inaccurate, and it supports mariadb and postgre too.
          In the documentation, they leave sqlite and mssql to the last places in the listings.

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        1 year ago

        I assume that’s to build from source.

        The times I’ve installed GitLab it’s been a case of dnf install https://.... The rest gets dragged in automatically.

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        1 year ago

        Probably Forgejo/Gitea also uses such dependencies, but their Go counterparts which are statically built into the server binary.

        If resource efficiency only depended on that, Gitlab would be more efficient with memory because of this. We all know that’s not the case, I just said it as a comparison.

        This also means that while Forgejo/Gitea depends less on your system installation, it also wont benefit from updated dependency packages.