1. Euphoria- What is the latest stable version ?
- Posted by SergioGelli Aug 17, 2010
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Good morning to all.
On other pages in open-source, administrators offer their work for downloads with basic warnings
"Latest development release"
"Latest stable release"
"Latest release unstable"
On the download page Euphoria Open only have versions b0, b1, b2, b3 and 311
I think the letter "b" means "beta" and "beta" means, for most people, that is not ready.
This is right?
The only stable version Euphoria, remains Eu311?
Which version are you using in your work?
2. Re: Euphoria- What is the latest stable version ?
- Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Aug 17, 2010
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Hi
You may have gathered, we're not like 'other' programming languages.
I would strongly advise you to use eu 4 - there are so many advantages, and it is very stable (I use it myself in my work vet database).
However, in order to judge you worthy, you must find and install it all by yourself. b0, b1 etc are only clues on your path to enlightenment, or euphoria!
Seriously though, and this should be better explained
- install from the installer http://sourceforge.net/projects/rapideuphoria/files/Rapid%20Euphoria/4.0b3/euphoria-40b3-ow.exe/download (this includes open watcom)
- optionally, update your euphoria installation from
http://rapideuphoria.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rapideuphoria/trunk/
http://jeremy.cowgar.com/eubins/windows/
The sourceforge site does not contain compiled binaries, whereas the eubins site does
The eubins site is updated on an ad hoc basis. I suggest you bookmark these in order to 'keep up to speed'
The windows eubins contain an entire basic eu tree, wheras the linux eubins only contained the compile euphoria executables.
Then, for windows get the latest win32 lib
http://win32libex.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/win32libex/trunk/?sortby=date
and for the sake of simplicity and speed then get a compiled IDE (Integrated Development Elephant)
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/euide%200.22.0.exe
Your challenge awaits (and a lot of helpful people here too)
Cheers
Chris
PS, there are some deliberate mistakes.
3. Re: Euphoria- What is the latest stable version ?
- Posted by sergelli Aug 17, 2010
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Thank Crhis. As always, you were very precise in your answer. But please, have my questions always as good faith. Perhaps the Portuguese-English translations produce ugly things and I do not want that. Best Regards
4. Re: Euphoria- What is the latest stable version ?
- Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Aug 17, 2010
- 1465 views
Hi Serge
I love to joke!
Best regards (and keep em coming)
Chris
5. Re: Euphoria- What is the latest stable version ?
- Posted by ArthurCrump Aug 17, 2010
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I have been using version 4 beta 2 for some time now with no problems.
There are definite advantages for certain tasks.
I believe that beta 3 is considered to be more reliable than beta 2, but I just have not got round to installing it yet because I am happy with beta 2.
However, I have not used all its features. See what other users say.
6. Re: Euphoria- What is the latest stable version ?
- Posted by irv Aug 17, 2010
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I compile a new version from svn about every week or when I think about it.
So far, there has been only one real "bug", and that seemingly has to do with how floating point numbers are passed to C routines. Using the precompiled 'eubins' I sometimes encounter this problem, but compiling on my own machine fixes it. So it's not really a problem with Eu4 itself.
I'd say the quality of 4.x is, and always has been, better than beta.
7. Re: Euphoria- What is the latest stable version ?
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Aug 17, 2010
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The only stable version Euphoria, remains Eu311?
Which version are you using in your work?
Yes, 3.1.1 is the latest stable release. Beta 4 will be released shortly. There are a couple of bugs that need to be fixed first, including getting all of the demos in shape. Also, Derek is working on a new index for the documentation, which should be a significant improvement.
The goal is to get beta 4 out, and move quickly towards a release candidate for v4. The current code is pretty solid. I haven't used anything but eu4 for some time now. It's too difficult to go back to prior versions of the language. There are a lot of things that make euphoria easier to use, and more powerful, too.
Matt
8. Re: Euphoria- What is the latest stable version ?
- Posted by irv Aug 18, 2010
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There are just a handful of really major improvements in 4.x that make possible things that just weren't possible with 3.1.
I was able to utilize a few of those in EuGTK, and there are probably others which I would have used but haven't discovered them yet.
If you're not using 4, you may be cheating yourself!
9. Re: Euphoria- What is the latest stable version ?
- Posted by SPringle Aug 18, 2010
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At first I used only 3.1 for production and I had both 3.1 and 4.0 working side by side. Now, I use 4.0 for everything it seems so... well... stable.
On the other hand, we throw scores of tests at it and we get the feeling that this thing is perfect and then someone tries something that we hadn't thought about and we realize there is another bug after all and probably many others we haven't discovered yet.
Shawn Pringle
10. Re: Euphoria- What is the latest stable version ?
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Aug 18, 2010
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On the other hand, we throw scores of tests at it and we get the feeling that this thing is perfect and then someone tries something that we hadn't thought about and we realize there is another bug after all and probably many others we haven't discovered yet.
Currently, the test suite has over 3700 tests in it. Every time we change anything in Euphoria, we automatically run all the tests to see if things are still working as expected. We know this is not enough coverage and we are building even more tests into the standard suite.
And in sprite of this, we expect that there will be new bugs being discovered when 4.0 is released. That's why the focus of 4.1 will be bug squashing rather than introducing new functionality.
