Re: iup // fails to load Linux so
- Posted by Senator Feb 04, 2017
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I think IUP is dead in the water and references to that GUI should be deleted from the OpenEuphoria wiki pages.
That goes too far. Adding "Works fine on Ubuntu 10.4 (32 bit)", "Known not to work on Linux Mint 18.1 (64 bit)", etc would be reasonable.
I stand by my assertion that EU IUP is dead in the water. It has been over a year since any development updates have been posted and what is available is simply not enough to be usable, even by experienced euphoria programmers.
Tauting EU IUP as a viable, or even a promising GUI toolkit for any platform, is to present new Euphoria users with a nasty pitfall right out of the chute. IUP for euphoria was over-hyped from the git go.
New users will not be encouraged to use Euphoria after running around in circles with the IUP toolkit.
Agreed. I have previously made an ass of myself by claiming (and still think it is true) that EuGTK is NOT cross platform. (add "Nigh on impossible to get this to work on Windows" to the wiki?)
Agreed. We have EuGTK for EU 4.x Linux 64-bit and various Windows library support for Eu 3.1 and PHIX. Wiki claims for GUI toolkits should be conservative and definitely not overstated so that new comers are not sucked into a vicious vortex of frustration.
Regards,
Kenneth Rhodes
