[Jprogramming] library suggestion

Sun Jul 18 11:06:05 HKT 2010

We discussed this at NYCJUG a few months ago and I believe the consensus was
that comment-stripping was a project manager option, though I don't know
this for certain as I'm not familiar with it.
I think there was also wide agreement that it would be helpful to leave in
comments.
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Andrew Nikitin <nsg21 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> What is the big benefit of distributing parts of standard library in
> mutilated form -- with comments stripped off and files merged together into
> one?
>> Maybe in the early nineties it made sense from resource saving standpoint,
> nowadays, I believe, it is more harm than good.
>> My major complain is about plot -- because this is the part I want to
> modify most often. But other library files bear "NB. built from project:
> ~Source/classes/..." mark too.
>> My suggestion is to to include those parts of library, that are currently
> in the "compressed" form, in their natural form. I understand that this may
> reqiure effort. For example, I downloaded plot source, but I failed to
> install it in a way that it would run from its source form, the PM's
> "compile" process is currently somehow needed for it to run. But I believe
> that it is a right thing to do and will simplify things in the long run.
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