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I wonder why they don't just publish the source repository on the web.



As what, a zip file or something? Good idea. http://referencesource-beta.microsoft.com/download.html


git repository would be better.


Baby steps.


My hunch is that they use some internal server and don't want to expose it to the world. They could copy it somewhere, but if you're not going to take contributions then why bother?

Also, their code explorer is far and away better than trying to spelunk through a Git repository looking for that one file you want to read. So I think it's actually an improvement for when you just want to look at a few files rather than download everything.


>My hunch is that they use some internal server and don't want to expose it to the world. They could copy it somewhere, but if you're not going to take contributions then why bother?

Ah. They should want to expose it to the world and take contributions.


We also have a ZIP download.




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