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Re: Use the Source Luke

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Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> writes:

> I hoping a new trend will start with dev's putting direct
> source code links in their documentation:
>
>  http://rhettinger.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/open-your-source-more/

That's a good article overall.

I have a quibble with the framing:

> The rest of the blame lies with installers. They all treat
> human-readable scripts like they were binaries and tuck the code away
> in a dark corner.

That’s hardly a “blame” of installers. The modules are placed in such
locations because they need to be accessible in a hierarchy at a
location that is known to not conflict with anything else, and be
predictable for the Python interpreter on the system.

If you want to blame anything for this (though I think it’s inaccurate
to frame it as a problem), the correct target of your accusation is the
fact that a filesystem path is the identifier for these modules that
will be used by programs to find them.


As for reading the source and making it more available to programmers,
yes, I agree wholeheartedly. Encouraging the routine reading of other
projects’s source code is a good thing, and thank you for beating the
drum.

-- 
 \       “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them |
  `\    to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their |
_o__)                      own desires.” —Susan Brownell Anthony, 1896 |
Ben Finney

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Use the Source Luke Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-01-28 10:32 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-01-31 12:45 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-01-30 08:50 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-01-29 12:23 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-01-28 12:30 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-02-04 08:58 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-01-28 20:49 +0000
  Re: Use the Source Luke rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-01-31 22:38 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke David Boddie <david@boddie.org.uk> - 2011-01-30 14:19 +0100
  Re: Use the Source Luke Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola@gmail.com> - 2011-01-28 21:32 +0100
  Re: Use the Source Luke rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-01-30 08:42 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2011-01-31 14:07 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Tim Wintle <tim.wintle@teamrubber.com> - 2011-01-30 14:47 +0000
    Re: Use the Source Luke Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-01-31 12:35 -0800
      Re: Use the Source Luke Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-01-31 22:39 +0000
        Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-01-31 22:25 -0800
    Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-02-04 08:34 -0800
      Re: Use the Source Luke "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-02-04 19:11 +0000
        Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-02-04 21:20 -0800
    Re: Use the Source Luke "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-02-01 19:32 +0000
  Re: Use the Source Luke Jack Diederich <jackdied@gmail.com> - 2011-01-28 19:02 -0500
    Re: Use the Source Luke Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2011-02-05 12:46 +0100
    Re: Use the Source Luke Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-01-28 17:52 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-01-30 04:21 +0000
    Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-01-29 20:50 -0800
      Re: Use the Source Luke Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-01-30 08:53 +0000
  Re: Use the Source Luke Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-01-29 21:17 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke TP <wingusr@gmail.com> - 2011-01-29 03:22 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-01-29 10:10 +1100
    Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-01-29 19:59 -0800
    Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-01-28 23:50 -0800
      Re: Use the Source Luke Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-01-30 08:22 +1100

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