Re: Is Windows testing of Eu 40B2 adequate?
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Dec 05, 2009
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Forked from Re: Eu4 win32lib, IDE
I suspect that Euphoria v4 beta 2 has not been tested adequately on Windows systems because of the lack of a suitable win32lib on general release. I use win32lib version 0.70.4a minimally modified to rename identifiers which clash with the new list of keywords. Programs using this take much longer to load on Euphoria v4b2 than on Euphoria v3.1. Consequently, I still use v3.1 unless I want to try something out on v4. I have seen references to more recent versions of win32lib, but those are not on general release in the Euphoria archive.
How many people are sticking to v3.1 or v3.1.1 because a suitable win32lib is not easily available? Surely this must be delaying testing of Euphoria on Windows systems. When a suitable win32lib is finally released, I would not be surprised to see a lot of bugs reported which only apply to windows systems.
Arthur Crump
A big sticking point here is that many bugs have been found since beta2 and fixed, but no one has had time to polish up the current code to make an RC1 release (or even a suitable beta3 release). Likely for similar reasons that the win32lib devs (or dev) hasn't found time to polish up and release the 4.0 compatible win32lib yet.
