1. Re: Euphoria 3.0?
Alan Oxley wrote:
>
> Regarding editor bundling, my 2c:
>
> Assuming Rob agrees to bundle an editor with more features than ED,
> then which one? We tend to be xenophobic about our favorite editor, which
> is usually the one we know best ;) IMHO Rob wisely avoids the wars and
> the download bloat.
> How about Rob adding more advice to the installation (like advising win32lib
> and Judith's IDE)
if you look at http://www.rapideuphoria.com/v20.htm Rob already suggests a
couple of windows libs.
> to say which editors are in use by existing Euphorians?
I have about 10 editors installed my develpment systems. like many other users
>
> FWIW, my editor is "GWD" from www.gwdsoft.com. It has a Eu syntax file, does
> FTP's
> etc etc but is not free.
As I mentioned before, I'm not talking about bundling an existing editor.
Some people are suggesting to bundle a favoured editor or to write one useing a
favoured windows/linux lib etc... and Rob has already mentioned the drawbacks on
that type of approach.
I agree with Jeremy Peterson on a couple of aspects...
All we want when we download the Euphoria package is a modern editor. To put it
simply just an 'ed.exw' that is all.
there were some comments made on the pascal editor wich is still DOS based
but pascal is extinct. We don't want Euphoria to suffer the same fate.
[OT] I think that even 'freePascal' comes with a windows editor.
nb. Also many people are busy suggesting new features, keywords, syntax etc...
Remember were not useing Delphi or Visual Basic here. For me the
control flow and syntax in Euphoria is just fine how it is.
We should devote our suggestions to enhancing the experience and keeping up with
modern times rather than compareing or asking for features that are in other
languages.
[OT] one day soon our variables declared as }}}
<eucode> integer </eucode>
{{{
will be
61-bit singned (following the current Eu 31-bit legacy). If the develpment of
Euphoria is not already heading this way then it will surely die a slow painful
death like DOS.
Hayden McKay...
