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From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Source (Was Re: An issue for the entire Amiga Community.)
Message-ID: <114@fishpond.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 90 00:34:06 GMT
References: <20930@snow-white.udel.EDU> <1990Jun3.163532.12083@ameristar> <MWM.90Jun4115553@raven.pa.dec.com> <136737@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Amiga Library Services
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In article <136737@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
>As an exercise, do a scan of Fish disks from 1 to the current and
>count the number of bytes of source and compare it to the number of bytes
>of executable per disk. Notice any disturbing trends? I have. Is this 
>something Fred is doing or are the submissions getting leaner. Fred? Anyone?

If I am sent source with a program, the source always gets included with
the binaries.  I would have to agree that the availability of source is
declining.  For those that are interested, here is roughly the precedence
order of material I consider for inclusion in the library, from highest
to lowest:

	1.	Material submitted to me on disk directly by the author,
		including source, set up in my disk format with an entry
		for my Contents file, and reasonably interesting.  I.E.,
		all I have to do is copy it to a disk and add the
		Contents entry.  Takes about 2 minutes to include.

	2.	Material submitted to me on disk by someone, possibly the
		author, with at least the authors knowledge and consent.
		May or may not be in my format and may or may not include
		extraneous stuff that I have to trash (such as AmigaDOS
		files).  Source is still prefered.  Usually takes about
		an hour to get it into the final form.

	3.	Material submitted to me electronically, may or may not
		be in my format, but typically doesn't include any
		extraneous junk to trash.  This usually takes about an
		hour's worth of work to include.

	4.	Material that passes my way via some other source such
		as usenet or BIX.  If really interesting and catches my
		attention, my be equivalent in priority to (1) or (2).
		Also somewhere around this priority are the disks I
		receive from BBS bugs that contains notes along the lines
		of "gee, I found all this neat stuff on BBS foobar, hope
		maybe you can use some of it..."

Right now I have a pile of category (1) stuff that would fill a typical
laundry basket, so you can see I'm rather backlogged...

-Fred
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