OpenEuphoria

Re: What pushes you away from Euphoria?

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agriculture.gouv.fr> Aug 10, 2006
• 651 views

Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:25:42 -0700, Jeremy Peterson
> > <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> The point is that Ed should be removed from the Euphoria package.
> >> I think so and apparently so do some of the others.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Neither you nor anyone else has any umbrage whatsoever with Ed being
> > quietly installed with each and every new version of Eu from now till
> > eternity.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I agree. If someone gets pushed away from Euphoria by the existence of
> Ed, it would be similar to the following situation:
> 
> Someone buys a new car, say a Porsche, and the sales assistant
> additionally gives him a bottle of wine. Then the customer thinks: "Hu,
> I like beer but not wine, so next time I'll better buy a Mercedes."  
> 
> Regards,
>    Juergen
> 
> -- 
> Please excuse my flawed English. My native language is Euphoria.

I am not sure that was his point.

A package is supposed to attract people and entice them to buy more. 
Ed is definitely a weak selling point, and removing it would help Rob 
probably. I personally don't care as I don't use it - there are much more 
useful programming editors freely available on the Net.

CChris