OpenEuphoria

RE: ESL

• Posted by Cuvier Christian <christian.cuvier at insee.fr> Aug 31, 2006
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> Subject: RE: ESL
> 
> 
> posted by: Jeremy Peterson <ptl99 at hotmail.com>
> 
> What would you suggest then?  
> I think having someone who's in charge and ultimately makes 
> all the decisions(even though the others of course have 
> input) will be the only way this project is ever useful.
> 
> Look at Win32Lib-WxEuphoria-etc.  Most successful libraries 
> are started and programmed mainly by one person, although 
> others contribute.
> 
> Jeremy
> 

I completely agree that, at least in this community, one head project are
the only ones to succeed. One head doesn't mean there's not a plurality of
coders.

As I said, look at the various GUI libs around - wxEuphoria, win32lib,
winClass, Euwingui, [wx]motor, add to the list. win32lib is less and less of
a standard, and perhaps the only thing that can be done is a half
comprehensive module collection, which will be standard just like wxEuphoria
or winClass are.

As someone remarked months ago, for example, the genfunc.e package by R.
Forno can be thought as an ESL already done, and why make another one?

So, you are mostly right, and this implies that a standard Eu library akin
to say the STL for C++ is not going to happen, because the proper
coordinated development framework needed just isn't there. Unless RDS
endorses one of the existing libs, like it does for win32lib.

CChris