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Embarassment should not be a sufficient reason to not release source
(I should know)

steve d.

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Jan Schütze <JanS@dracoblue.de> wrote:
> Looks like not [1]
>
>  > Not currently. First, parts of the sources are in a very sorry shape
> (some are in no
>  > recognisable shape at all). Second, I have tweaked many bits and pieces
> to keep
>  > the Idle runtime DLL as compact as possible and I am not yet finished
> with tweaking.
>  > Third, the way the Idle runtime DLL integrates with the compiler and
> interpreter is
>  > somewhat tricky in places and not all the details are yet fully thought
> out, let alone
>  > commented. (And even if they were fully thought out, changing these
> things without
>  > an intimate knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes might produce
> some pretty
>  >impressive fireworks.)
>  >
>  >However, at some point I will produce a version which will contain either
> all source
>  > code or at least my own code and patches plus pointers to all third party
> libraries
>  > that I am using.
>
>  [1] http://idle.thomaslauer.com/IdleFAQ.html , #15
>
>
>
>
>  Carlos wrote:
>
> > "Thomas Lauer" <thomas.lauer@virgin.net> a écrit
> >
> >
> >
> > > Over the weekend I uploaded the 0.3.0 beta. Changes include:
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > Will you eventualy make the source code available ?
> >
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