A termux-app v0.120 release was made on Google PlayStore on 2024-06-04 by @fornwall, along with some Termux plugin app releases. These were not done by the current Termux core team. They are only a...
I’m not being harsh; they bungled that initial transition badly too; despite it being a Google action.
Unfortunately they left a lot of users in the lurch when they left the Play Store as well and that too left a bad taste. It’s not exactly easy to migrate across versions and packages and software differ wildly as they allowed both versions to do their own thing without relabeling them so you could run them side-by-side.
I don’t blame them for Google’s actions; but I do blame them for how they handled it.
You might be confusing my transition into a rant against Google as blaming Termux.
No matter what, if a team loses access to the Play Store, there’s nothing they can do about that. They’re not absolved of guilt, but it’s certainly something that could happen to any team. After that, they tried to make the best of the situation and did so, until this Play Store release, which is, as I’ve mentioned not good.
I feel like you’re being harsh. They lost access to the Play Store for a very long time and so could only update via F-Droid. Shit happens.
This new one is abhorrent though. Catastrophic levels of fuck up. But it’s only one faux pas.
I’m not being harsh; they bungled that initial transition badly too; despite it being a Google action.
Unfortunately they left a lot of users in the lurch when they left the Play Store as well and that too left a bad taste. It’s not exactly easy to migrate across versions and packages and software differ wildly as they allowed both versions to do their own thing without relabeling them so you could run them side-by-side.
I don’t blame them for Google’s actions; but I do blame them for how they handled it.
You might be confusing my transition into a rant against Google as blaming Termux.
No matter what, if a team loses access to the Play Store, there’s nothing they can do about that. They’re not absolved of guilt, but it’s certainly something that could happen to any team. After that, they tried to make the best of the situation and did so, until this Play Store release, which is, as I’ve mentioned not good.