Re: [ANN] Idle pre-alpha released

[Stephen Kellett <lua@...>]

Michael Broughton wrote:
> You know, all you really have to do is release your source code. Perhaps 
> someone will be nice enough to contribute a Makefile.

I agree, we made some mods to Ruby to add some memory tracking 
extensions. We made a Windows binary available and source code for the
changed files (1 file) and for the new files (2 files) for anyone either 
wanting to incorporate this into a future version of Ruby (I hope so) or 
build their own Linux/Mac version.

Also, given that Lua is open source and Idle is built on Lua I can 
imagine not releasing the source will generate a moderate amount of 
ill-will and releasing the source will generate more good will.

Stephen

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