Why External Dependency Manager is distributed via dlls and not the source code?

[stopiccot]

[REQUIRED] Please fill in the following fields:

• Unity editor version: 2020.3.38
• External Dependency Manager version: 1.2.170
• Source you installed EDM4U: Unity Package Manager (.unitypackage or Unity Package Manager)
• Features in External Dependency Manager in use: All (Android Resolver, iOS Resolver, VersionHandler, etc.)
• Plugins SDK in use: None (Firebase, Admob, Facebook, etc.)
• Platform you are using the Unity editor on: Mac (Mac, Windows, or Linux)

[REQUIRED] Please describe the question here:

Why External Dependency Manager is not distributed via source code C# files like most of UPM packages do?
Why there are precompiled Google.XXX.dll's instead of source code files?
I genuinely think it would be very helpful to see exact source code to better understand how External Dependency Manager is actually working.

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[mhama]

I support this request. It will help stabilize EDM code base.
The users of EDM are normal unity developers.
With .cs files, normal unity developers can easily inspect the cause of issues and they can make nice issues and PRs.
With DLLs, it will make unity developers much difficult to add logs, inspect, make fixes, check the results of fixes.

I don't think that the current EDM is "very stable". Many times EDM does not work like it should be. It will be nice to welcome more developers to fix EDM.

[Thaina]

I wish all package should be released as raw source code so we could debug and fix the problem without rebuilding. This would also allow easier contribution