On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:54 pm, Stuart Donaldson wrote:
> If there are several people out there with partial solutions that are
> not really polished for release, maybe we need a repository for such
> solutions. Some place that was admittedly weak on documentation, but
> that people could post their solutions. They could certainly be
> educational for some people, and might spur someone else on to help
> add the requisite polish to make it ready for release?
>
> What about a loosely structured "contrib" directory in CVS? The down
> side to that would be it would be difficult to manage and cleanup
> after a while. Perhaps just a section on the Wiki? What other
> forums might work for such a thing?
>
> -Stuart-
This is exactly what I was going to write back. So thanks! :-)
But let me add that I think a Webware-driven site could be written for
this! This could fulfill the recent call for an interesting and useful
app to be developed and maintained by the Webware community as a public
example. *And* this site could be for the entire Python community,
thereby giving Webware more exposure ("powered by Webware" on every
footer).
My ideas for such a site:
- Name: CodeHeap
- Purpose: Browse, search and download Python code that you _may_ just
find useful.
- Functions:
- Upload code, anonymous or not.
- See recent uploads.
- Search by name, author, date, filename, keywords, description,
*code contents*.
Basically if you had some potentially reusable Python code that wasn't
baked enough or that you didn't want to support, you could toss it in
the CodeHeap.
This reminds me of "Useless Python" but on a grander scale and without
the "Useless". :-)
Example use: If I'm about to write some DAV code, I first search
CodeHeap for "DAV" and get to look through several hits ranging from
individual modules to entire packages. I can read the code right in my
browser, syntax highlighted, even if the original package was a tar
ball.
Regarding the survey, I don't disagree with Tripp et al, but I don't
really want to collate all the responses I'd get for a question in this
area. On the bright side, shaking this code out of the bushes can be a
project/effort all its own.
--
Chuck
http://ChuckEsterbrook.com
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