Why PackageCloud and not Launchpad?

[mryujitanaka]

Hi, there!

I would like to know the reason why the GitHub Desktop - The Linux Fork project uses the PackageCloud and not the Launchpad.

I ask this because PackageCloud is a paid service and I always have problems updating the program via Terminal. While there is a free and OpenSource alternative like the Launchpad.

Thank you in advance.

[shiftkey]

From my investigation work in #105 it seems that Launchpad required a source package to be uploaded, which didn't match with what I've been building for packages.

I also summarized in a few places what PackageCloud gives me that Launchpad does not:

• hosted infrastructure
• accepts .deb directly
• handles GPG signing natively
• also supports RPM hosting

For now, please follow along with #278 which is the discussion about PackageCloud