Recently I've seen answers, where the OP is asking for a software recommendations, and the answers outlines how to do this in python, and which libraries might come in handy to solve the issue. But, and this is the key part, *it is not a software package/program which the user can install*. It is more of an idea on how to develop a program to solve the issue at hand.

Are these proper answers? And if not, how to handle these kind of answers?

**Edit:** Izzy relates this to ["Asking for software, get libraries in answers"](//meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/428), but there are a few reasons for me asking again:

1. Is there a consensus on providing software (as in code) being good/not-so-good answers?
2. If this kind of answers are not wanted, then how do we handle them?
3. Should the guidelines be updated?

In addition to the above specifications, I would also to emphasize that I'm wanting to differentiate between software as in a program, versus software as in program code, which for a lot of users is a quite essential difference as they don't know how to program.