While porting an emulator, often times it’s helpful to see how authors of other ports handle certain challenges. Over time, a number of small issues have prompted me to look for possible answers in other applications.
Quite often, source code for a similar port is freely available. Too often, however, it’s not. The surprising thing is that the people who hide the source code aren’t the authors of the emulator – it’s the authors of the port.
As someone who works off of open-source (not necessarily by any official definition) projects, I welcome all private developers to use my code and learn from it–my only request is that copied code is given proper credit.
I would like to see all authors that port open-source software release their code. This is especially relevant to the PSP subculture, as the availability of documentation is relatively scarce. Your work will help others, and will gain your port more popularity, as others will acknowledge your contribution.
Hiding code for a pending “cleanup” (which frequently, never happens) shouldn’t be reason enough to hide it. Even kludgy code is better than no code.
I'm a programmer with too much interest in too many programming languages, and not enough time.