Hmm, sorry, I don’t remember precisely what my issue was but I remember distributing source code was difficult in some fashion (since I didn’t want to just distribute binaries).
There was never really an issue with distributing source code out-of-tree but for a long time it was just the idiomatic thing to do to add your code to Factor’s repository and let it be shipped/maintained with it. Libraries would change so fast in the early days that it made bitrot of third party code easier to manage.
Hmm, sorry, I don’t remember precisely what my issue was but I remember distributing source code was difficult in some fashion (since I didn’t want to just distribute binaries).
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There was never really an issue with distributing source code out-of-tree but for a long time it was just the idiomatic thing to do to add your code to Factor’s repository and let it be shipped/maintained with it. Libraries would change so fast in the early days that it made bitrot of third party code easier to manage.
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