On: Why do you not make the code available under a 'source code repository'?

[efaref]

The quality of their code looks pretty terrible too. For starters, just look at their genMakefiles script (something of a WTF itself - y u no configure?):

https://github.com/hackeron/live555/blob/master/genMakefiles

It should be more like:

    os=$1
    modules="liveMedia groupsock ..."
    
    for module in $modules
    do
      /bin/rm -f $module/Makefile
      cat $module/Makefile.head config.$os $module/Makefile.tail > $module/Makefile
      chmod a-w $module/Makefile
    done

[jff → efaref]

> y u no configure?

Because autoconf is a huge disgusting mess and if you can generate your Makefiles as simply as that, for the love of God DO IT!

[chippy → efaref]

I'm sure they would welcome contributors!

I wonder if the classic excuse for not open sourcing software applies here - that the developer is ashamed of their source, that they think it is messy and no one will like it, applies here?

Either way, one shouldn't really overtly negatively criticize - it probably wouldn't encourage such a developer if they do have that thought.

[admax88q → efaref]

That's a pretty weak example to argue that their code quality is poor.

They didn't bother to set up a for loop, for only 8 iterations. Their version is still perfectly legible, and you don't have to worry as much about shell argument expansion, which nobody really understands fully.