Source code / Changelog page about betterthangrep HOT 2 CLOSED

From email from Nathan Arthur, some backstory:

If I saw the new site for the first time right now, I'd just assume those links would exist under "Community", unless I saw a separate "Developer" tab. That's what I'm used to from other sites.

Would it have helped in your case the restrictive corporate environment to just point to the http://betterthangrep.com/ack-standalone ?

Huh. If I'd thought through it, that's what I would have grabbed when I wanted to see the source code. But without following the link, I didn't know whether I'd find an HTML page, a compressed archive, or plain perl. "plain perl" is perfect, but it's not what I would have guessed. So I never did try that link.

In my case, though, the corporate environment does allow importing third-party tools, and we did already have an old version of ack around. But I knew we were out of date, and I'd found a bug/problem based on our environment, and I wanted to see if it was worthwhile to go through the process to get the corporate-supported version upgraded. The end result was that I did go ahead and download the code, and I ended up submitting a patch that you applied, so then I went through the process to get us upgraded to that version. So the net result was great - it was just a little difficult to get there.

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