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This is a general issue with GitHub repos - people write awesome software and then their Curse of Knowledge causes them to think people open the repo and immedi
by Vaslo 6y ago
This is a general issue with GitHub repos - people write awesome software and then their Curse of Knowledge causes them to think people open the repo and immediately know what it does. I wonder how much good open source gets ignored by less than amateur computer science folks like me.
- vikbytes 6y agoI would just like to piggyback on this and say that in addition to this, an image or two goes a long way people. Especially if your program has a GUI!
- est31 6y agoThis project predates github repos. The README file was renamed from a READ.ME file in the original source distribution. Finding out what a piece of software is worked differently back then. Not sure how though.
- raldi 6y agoYou would read the printed manual
- bigiain 6y agoOr the magazine article...
- cratermoon 6y agoYou would type in the code from the listing at the end of the article.
- wolfi1 6y agothose were the times. PEEKS and POKES and a list of numbers. ah, fond memories
- bartvk 6y agoOr maybe it included a textfile with the .nfo extension, which contained an ASCII-art skull.
- scoopr 6y agoIts clearly missing the file_id.diz file
- Tepix 6y agoLooks like FILE_ID.DIZ appeared in the 90s and this software predates it.
- ImprovedSilence 6y agoThis rings so true to me as well. I cant keep track of all the things ive passed up looking at or using because the readme gave no info on what it is actually supposed to do.