1. Re: Visual Euphoria wont run ATT:Matt Lewis
your average Joe wrote:
>
> actually, there is, the only reason i have put VE up is for testing,
> basically i do not want 50 clones of VE before i finish it,and i disagree
> the user contributions are not about open source, it's about showing what
> Euphoria is capable of aswell as adding libraries for other users to use.
> As you say 99% of them are open source so what's your god damn problem with me
>
> being in the 1%
>
I don't have a "god damn" problem. I was just responding to your previous
comment, which in my view misrepresented what most of the user archives
are about. Personally, I tend not to use stuff submitted without source.
One reason is that I like to be able to fix bugs when I come across them.
There's also the security issue (not that I scritinize every line of
code). There have been malicious programs (in exe form) submitted around
here in the past, which caused a lot of grief. See:
http://www.listfilter.com/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=9&fromYear=3&toMonth=A&toYear=3&postedBy=&keywords=snake.exe
I believe that RDS tests (at least I remember that they used to)
submissions on a junk box to see if anything bad happens, but that's
not exactly exhaustive testing.
I'm not sure why you think there would be 50 VE clones. The way things
tend to work around here is that if people modified it, they'd send the
source to you for inclusion assuming they already took the time to
download, run and use it in the first place, which most probably won't,
unless there's source. This is a community of programmers, so we like
source code.
I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't submit contributions without source,
but just don't be surprised when it doesn't get a great reception.
Matt Lewis
