OpenEuphoria

Re: Editors

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Aug 09, 2006
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Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> 
> The open source debate is not really up for discussion at this point,
> I am working on something that I hope will grant the personal freedom
> needed, but no-one hold their breath over that.
> 
> Question: of those that use Judith's IDE,

I haven't regularly used it for quite some time (I rarely use win32lib 
at this point), at least directly, but I'll post my answers anyway..

>  * how many do so out of principle (open source),

Yes.

>  * how many actually have found they /needed/ it to be open source
>     (ie fixed a bug ontime/that Judith could not),

Back when I used, it, I can recall fixing some bugs, and changing some 
things.  It's rare that I'd use some OSS without somehow modifying it to
fit my needs.  In fact, the editor of wxIDE is a wxEuphoria port of the
editor that's part of the win32lib IDE.  If you take a look at the source,
there is still a fair amount of cruft left in from it's win32lib days.

>  * how many just because it is free, and

Yep.

>  * how many would pay if they had to?

No.

Matt Lewis