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Re: Why do people still insist on including uneccessary files in contributi

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at yahoo.com> Dec 23, 2004
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Kat wrote:
> 
> On 21 Dec 2004, at 8:20, Dave Probert wrote:
> 
> > 
> > posted by: Dave Probert <zingo at purpletiger.com>
> > 
> > -------- RANT ------
> > Why do people still insist on including uneccessary files in contributions?
> > 
> > There are people out here on the World Internet that still use 56K Modems to
> > access files - we really appreciate when people don't bloat their
> > contributions
> > by including all of win32lib with their simple 30k piece of code.
> > 
> > Why do these people not use a tiny little bit of commom sense and simply
> > have a
> > reference in their readme as to which version of someone elses files they
> > require to run their thing?  Is it too much to ask that people stop doing
> > this,
> > or that the file moderator (Rob??) at least make a note that the person has
> > done
> > such a thing.  If the moderator does not have the time to do this then maybe
> > getting another community person to do so would be a good idea.  Or simply
> > having some guidlines about such thngs before people upload.
> > 
> > Sorry, but this really pisses me off.
> > 
> > -------- END RANT ---------
> 
> Because it beats trying to locate the correct win32lib version for the 
> application! I have downloaded apps, and still cannot get them to run, and 
> the authors have long since left Eu behind, and there's no docs to say what 
> version is needed. And i have a 10K dialup line too, and yeas, it's a 56K 
> *modem*, but a 10K phone line.

Here's my 2 cents.  I try to include any libs that I've modified, if the 
modifications are at all non-trivial.  Also, libs that are very stable,
and very common, I often do not include, but I try to document the version
required.  I try to archive old releases of *my* contributions, so if 
anyone needs something, I should be able to help out, although I generally
only want to support the current version.

Checking the win32lib sourceforge page, it appears that older releases are
no longer there.  Derek, did you perhaps take some down?  This seems like
the obvious place to leave them up (even if we don't link to them on the
homepage).

Matt Lewis