1. what standards and why?
The standards is the "specifications". I know something about HTML specs,
and the specs _is_ the standard, perhaps there's other notes and stuff.
The specifications is the Euphoria manual. What do you mean by standards?
Alan
2. Re: what standards and why?
- Posted by JJProg at CYBERBURY.NET
Dec 20, 1998
EU>The standards is the "specifications". I know something about HTML specs,
EU>and the specs _is_ the standard, perhaps there's other notes and stuff.
EU>The specifications is the Euphoria manual. What do you mean by standards?
EU>Alan
For example:
I have an idea of how to automatically update Euphoria include
files so that you just run the program and it will check which include
files you need and if there are any updates on the Internet. If there
are, it will download them.
It would work something like this:
There is a "standard" for spesifing information using comments in
the source code that I wrote
(http://members.tripod.com/~JJProg/esp1.html) so that any program can
get information about Euphoria source code files (for example, what
version it is, who wrote it etc.).
So each file would have a line like this:
-- version=(version number)
Now when you download an Euphoria program that requires, for
example, Win32lib, if win32lib.ew had a line like the above, this
program could make sure that you had the right version of win32lib.
If you look at the code I wrote for these comment properties,
you will notice that it is in a zip file with 2 files (readcmnt.e and
tokens.e). Both files have three comment properties (author, version,
and description). Now if I update one of the files, I could increse the
version number and post it on the web. Anyone with the update software
could run it once in a while and it would find the new version and
download it.
Jeffrey Fielding
JJProg at cyberbury.net
http://members.tripod.com/~JJProg/
