Posting code (was: Inform: Regarding idea for space/weight system)


7 Oct 1995 13:52:22 GMT

In article <1995Oct5.234918.14420@news.cs.indiana.edu>,
Sam Hulick <shulick@mango.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>Good idea. In that case, stick around and watch the group.. I will post
>a more complete version. The one i posted was more of a sketch. But if
>it would be better as, say, "physics.h", then I will just create that as
>a complete library in itself and re-post it later. Watch for
>'physics.h' within the next, um.. 2 weeks or so! Bye all!
>

I'm not quite sure posting all your code examples here in r.a.i-f is a
very good idea.

It's not that I'm annoyed at seeoing them or anything like that. On
the contrary, I think you're doing the IF community a service by
sharing your secrets :-).

However, the usual way of doing things like this is to upload the
files to an FTP archive (or , possibly, putting them on a WWW site)
and then post a pointer to them: "My new Inform code for implementing
<foo> is now available as ftp://ftp.gmd.de/some-path-here".

That way, people would know exactly where to find eveyrthing when they
need it, not just for a couple of weeks after you posted it. Of course,
lots of people archive this newsgroup, but it often happens that
articles are lost, and sifting through the collected r.a.i-f archives
to find one code example is rather a lot of work...

Magnus