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Originally Posted by KevinH
For a number of reasons
- we used to have a google code repository but it went basically unused
- the source is not big, is not that complicated, and does not change rapidly
- it is only released when new features or serious bug fixes are needed
- it is standalone and not part of another project
- it was derived from the work of a number of people but only a few of us maintain it and we are all active on this site (Mobileread)
Why is the history important? The original mobi 6 version can be found at the start of this thread and all releases of the dual mobi/KF8 version replace the earlier versions completely. The kindleunpack file has the version history at the top if you need to see what has changed in each release.
KevinH
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Back when it was still called mobiunpack, I ported some of the code to Ruby for use in some other software. As a developer who built some code based on an earlier version of the kindleunpack code, it would be really nice to see the actual code changes and bugfixes that went with each new version.
I'm not terribly surprised that the Google code repository didn't get used much; GitHub does make it a lot easier for new people to get involved and send pull requests (without even having to ever install any sort of SCM on their computer!).
If you still have archives of all of the old versions, I'd be happy to do some software archeology and set up a git repository with the history version-by-version! If not, or nobody else thinks that this would be of value, then I'll kindly go back to lurking.