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Relevant quote from the previous talk from last year: "(4) The unreleased tools needed to build and test Inform were far worse, some being huge Perl scripts wh
by _emacsomancer_ 7y ago
Relevant quote from the previous talk from last year:
"(4) The unreleased tools needed to build and test Inform were far worse, some being huge Perl scripts which were just mazes of twisty little passages. They were nowhere close to being releaseable in quality. One reason Inform hasn’t been open source in some years is that this infrastructure was such a mess. But not being open source is an existential threat right there."
- justinjlynn 7y agoIndeed. Nobody cares how awful the tools are - something that exists, is open source, and can be improved is infinitely better than that which doesn't exist and has to be reverse engineered.