Re: Obsolete EUDIR!
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Feb 01, 2013
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...I find EUDIR quite handy. I hope we keep it. Most programs I've written in EU are portable. In fact most will also work on Linux with the wine loader...
I agree. It strikes me as rash to suddenly drop EUDIR. However; if it is dropped, then some function like this added to std filesys.e would be helpful:
I find EUDIR to be the opposite of useful. I suppose that on Windows, where everything is installed to a bundled directory, it can be useful. In a unix-like environment, however, the whole concept of what EUDIR means necessarily changes.
But I still find environment variables to be more troublesome than configuration files or command line arguments. For one thing, it doesn't support multiple installations of euphoria. Or an installed version and a development version working on the same machine. I have several working versions of euphoria. If I relied on EUDIR, it would be a lot more complicated and difficult to setup and maintain.
And I still say that if you're using EUDIR, you're doing it wrong and making your life more difficult.
Matt
