Re: Extensions for EUPHORIA proposals
- Posted by SDPringle Aug 21, 2008
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I think what ever is decided exwc.exe which doesn't open a new console window is the prefered program for use at the command line and exw.exe is what should be associated to what everextension is deemed to be GUI.
It is also understood that there will be an include extension for each program extension.
So, what if we have one extension for all platforms? Then we need to put ifdef end ifdef at the top level of the program and the user will see all of these icons that look runable and they do run but most give do not setup a Windowed environment and under UNIX like OSes they appear to crash for the message wouldn't even become visible to the user.
The user should see two different kinds of program files: Console and GUI. That means at least two extensions. The platform DOS32 is most unlike the others and with some meta data techniques you might be able to have the DOS interpreter execute its Windows cousin with the same arguments inspite of these differences. Yet it is a lot of defining stubs for routines that exist on one and not on the other. It seems like a lot of work for just DOS. I don't think there is a such a thing as a generic EUPHORIA program. Either it is console based or GUI but I have not yet recognized one as both.
Shawn Pringle
