Re: Who is compiling Eu, and why?
- Posted by katsmeow Jan 30, 2015
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So is the compiler to be frozen at v4.0.5 or v4.1.0?
Neither. There are no plans to do this. The translator will not be frozen.
Then you are saying there will be no changes to OE, unless those changes can be compiled also. Which means anyone hacking the interpreter to add a feature must also be fluent in C, in order to prove the feature can be translated. That lets out the vast majority of people who are 1) not fluent in C, and 2) have a Euphoria app to create instead of learning C. After all, if they can write it in C, they'd write it in C and donate it to the C "community", altho chances are, it's already in C or some other language.
My hope was to make OE more accessable to the people who program in Euphoria. To make it easier for the dev team to incorporate features into the main release, in OE, and not spend time in C. To increase the rate of progress in making OE more feature-rich. So Karl, DCuny, Matt, etc etc etc can see their work in the interpreter be useful to more people, and so what if it won't translate, at least it all works together and it's there for people to use in one release.
Kat
