Thursday, April 19, 2007

Code Beach

Code Beach is a “central repository where Mac developers can share pieces of useful code.” The code is all in the public domain. It tracks dependencies, and commenting and syndication features are planned. It would be nice if the actual code were browseable on the Web, and therefore indexable. Via Blake C.

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Hello, i'm from CodeBeach. While snippets are already browseable and indexable for classes the situation is a bit more complex. I can surely find ways to extract the source from the ZIP file and show the source however it either requires some naming convention or any text file would end up being showed, which would make pages pretty long. Thank you for your feedback (even if indirect), as it made in the long CodeBeach ToDo file ;)

Yeah, I don't know what the best way to handle this is. Subversion is convenient in many ways, and it would automatically make everything accessible on the Web, but it might be hard to integrate it with your other features.

Yes subversion was one of my first thought when i started development, unfortunately there were some major issue i couldn't solve using it. Some simple extension/file name matching may work for classes, but it usually work for categories, which will probably be prominent on the site. I will solve the issue other ways though (either by naming conventions or by showing any text file with a javascript folding option). As an aside offtopic, want to thank you personally for SpamSieve as it saves me hour of my time :D

As a little follow up, i've added the feature you proposed to codebeach today ;)

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