Re: Issues installing Euphoria
- Posted by petelomax Dec 02, 2014
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Every now and then, I get the urge to try out Euphoria again. And then I try installing it, and my experience is terrible.
This isn't a commentary on Euphoria itself, but on the experience of trying to get Euphoria up and running on my machine (Windows 7, 64 bit).
Time to try out an editor. Maybe ed is better than I remember.
Edita looks interesting, but the comments on the Euphoria site say it's deprecated.
I'm surprised to see that. I was under the impression that Pete Lomax was still maintaining this. Edita might be more geared to Phix (his own language, written from scratch but backwards compatible with RDS Euphoria), but it should work with OpenEuphoria.
I'm surprised to see that too, and after unchecking "Forum" I couldn't find Edita and deprecated in the same sentence anywhere on this site. It is true that I have not shipped an update for quite a while, but the first two links on http://edita.is-great.org should still work and it should be fine on Windows 7 (flw), though I do remember the toobar was a bit squished. There is a new release in the pipeline, with that fixed, (Phix-based) intellisense, unicode support, improved help, and around 3 dozen petty bugfixes, but I'm not shipping that until the new version of Phix is ready, which may take some time. You are quite right that Edita runs (better) on Phix, but that's all bundled in with the download and it shouldn't be an issue if you want to edit/run OpenEuphoria code.
There were a couple of bugs (e.g. http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/123999.wc and http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/123342.wc ) but Pete's probably already fixed those.
For the first one, the new version has (will have) arwen/sizeof() renamed. I don't plan to do anything about the second one as a properly setup eu.cfg should be enough, which is an OpenEuphoria thing anyway.
Pete
PS Welcome back, Mr Cuny.
