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It's irritating when these so-called "open source" projects don't have a link to the source from the home page or anywhere else obvious.
by JohnQPasserby 15y ago
It's irritating when these so-called "open source" projects don't have a link to the source from the home page or anywhere else obvious.
- boyter 15y agoWhy the downvote? This is an issue. When collecting repositories for searchco.de I literally have spent hours hunting around on many project pages looking for the page which points you at how to get the source for a project. Its usually buried in a wiki page in the developer subdomain. A simple link from the homepage with "Get Source" would save myself and im certain a lot of others a great deal of time.
- JohnQPasserby 15y agocan I ask what are your imagined use cases for searchco.de? It looks interesting but I cannot think of what I could use it for
- boyter 15y agoIts just a semi replacement for Google code search. To be honest, its just something I play with. If something comes from it great, if not im not terribly worried about it.
- JohnQPasserby 15y agoIt's neat, but it's hard to find something unless you can guess what people name their fn and vars for programming domain X
- boyter 15y agoTrue. I have been using it a lot recently to learn how the Guava and Guice API's work in the real world. So perhaps that's its target market. I also tend to use it when trying to remember how some feature of a language works EG lambdas in python http://searchco.de/?q=lambda+ext%3Apy&cs=on http://searchco.de/?q=lambda+ext%3Apy&cs=on