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0 pointsmkesper11y ago0 comments

Why not? Might get more people using Scala for Android development.

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It's code I've invested a lot of time in, but was never written with the idea that other people would see it, so 75% worried at how horrifying the code might be and 25% worried that someone might make a build and push a clone out with malware attached.

lmm11y ago

For the 75%: It's still useful and will be appreciated, even if there might be mean people out there. Much better to see code than no code.

For the 25%: wouldn't they just decompile the current version?

tomswartz0711y ago

To allay your fears about the 75%: that's what code review is for. Lots of eyes make the problematic code go away. :)

I'd be more than happy to help de-spaghetti the code if it was available.

nilium11y ago

Currently working on another patch to fix some newfound crashes while prepping the code for open sourcing. License headers and all that.

Plan for now is to release it under the GPL version 2 or 3 to hopefully compel people to make their modifications available (plus there's not much use for a lenient license here -- it's not a library, though some of the code could be moved to one later). This might take a day or so, so I expect this post to disappear into complete obscurity before I'm done. Might create a new HN submission for that just to let people know. At any rate, my net access is down so I have to write this on my phone, meaning any release is going to wait on my ISP to determine what's up and how to resolve the issue.

So, open source is planned, I'll just suck it up as I usually do when I release every other project of mine. Re: malware, I've decided it's not my responsibility to protect people from the malicious few. I'll let Google do that.

GhotiFish11y ago

re 75%, don't be so bashful, that sounds like an opportunity to learn.

but I understand the 25% bit. It's a shame the android market is so hostile.

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nilium11y ago

lmm11y ago

For the 75%: It's still useful and will be appreciated, even if there might be mean people out there. Much better to see code than no code.

For the 25%: wouldn't they just decompile the current version?

tomswartz0711y ago

To allay your fears about the 75%: that's what code review is for. Lots of eyes make the problematic code go away. :)

I'd be more than happy to help de-spaghetti the code if it was available.

nilium11y ago

Currently working on another patch to fix some newfound crashes while prepping the code for open sourcing. License headers and all that.

GhotiFish11y ago

re 75%, don't be so bashful, that sounds like an opportunity to learn.

but I understand the 25% bit. It's a shame the android market is so hostile.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse