Re: name change from ed.ex to edx.ex
- Posted by _tom (admin) Jan 30, 2014
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Looking at the change, it appears to be a 4.1 only change. http://scm.openeuphoria.org/hg/euphoria/rev/2c379fb63e74
I "think" my change was for 4.1, but I can't say I fully understand how mercurial is accepting my changes.
edx.ex is not really a language feature that requires backwards compatibility, so I wouldn't normally insist on a freeze on this, but seeing how the release of 4.0.6 is planned to be the very last release of the 4.0 line, and the 4.1 line has yet to have an official release, it thusly makes sense in this case to make an exception, and keep the naming of that file consistent between all 4.0.x releases.
Actually it makes sense for edx.ex to be in 4.0.6 using this argument:
- Someone new to Euphoria, loads 4.0.6 on Linux, types "ed", and sees an existing line editor that has nothing to do with Euphoria--a bit messy.
- Someone familiar with Euphoria can easily rename "edx" back to "ed."
Maybe the introduction to "ed" ("edx") should include some history, since this editor was created in version 1.0 back in 1993.
_tom
