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Re: Joel's VanityGen GUI Release (SOURCE CODE)
by
mistercoin
on 06/01/2015, 16:34:54 UTC
hi,

first of all, great to see selfmade coders.
and even greater to see you using your
skills for BTC-related techs.

regarding your "open-sourcing":
don't provide the source-code within an archive.
would you open an archive somebody unknown posted somewhere?? PLEASE DON'T.
it's very risky and you never know what really is inside the .zip, .rar, etc.

push your source-code to: https://www.github.com
create your repository which allows you proper chronological
listing of code-updates (commits) within a very
simple view and also giving other devs (contributors) the chance
to suggest code-improvisations/updates (pull requests) which
get implemented (merged) after reviewing/verifying the changes.
it's defenitely worth a try.

cheers!
bitsta


What's wrong with archives? lol. It's the files inside you should worry about.

lol. read my post again.

"[...]it's very risky and you never know what really is inside the .zip, .rar, etc."
No. You should go and read what .ZIP and .RAR are. If there is an .exe(or linux executable) inside, it will be visible. As for github, there won't be commits when the application is already coded.

Yeah really though. Open the .rar/.zip and look to see if there is an exe there. If so, do a scan of it before extracting and running.  Roll Eyes