Samples directory

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed May 19 11:27:39 PDT 2010


On 5/19/10 15:28, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> I often find non-working samples in other languages/tools. For example, the Python source code comes with a sample folder. And there's a script called ss1.py, which raises an exception with the message "This code is not secure in Python 2.2 and later". Python 2.2 was released in 2001, so I assume the samples directory is not really maintained anymore. There are many more examples like this, and in other languages/tools as well.
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> But how many people generally know of or would check the samples directory?
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> Personally, I tend to get my examples from either the documentation or from a google search, tutorials found on the internet, etc. The internet is probably the best place to store the samples to (e.g. a wiki), it can be maintained, which means people could always get the most up-to-date samples.
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> Compare this with having a sample file in the zipped DMD archive that you later realize has some code that is not really safe. You will end up having to re-pack and redistribute the entire archive. So imo, if there are any samples in the archive they have to be kept simple and clean.
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> Thoughts?

How about http://www.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki ?


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