OpenEuphoria

Re: More projects?

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Dec 28, 2005
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C Bouzy wrote:
> 
> Vincent wrote:
> 
> > With this said, it's important that RDS value the other supported OSes
> > equally
> > as much. In order to protect the language from crippling on other platforms
> > if support for a specific platform erodes away, the majority of features
> > added
> > to Euphoria should become available across all supported platforms.
> > 
> 
> The Win32API will still be in use 7 years from now, it is not going
> anywhere. Personally I do not see any major advantages of supporting
> other OSes, especially when they only represent 5-7% of ALL computers
> in the world. This means if there were only 1000 computer users in the
> world, approximately 50 would have one of the OSes you mentioned. And
> out of that 50, how many would be using EU?. So Robert is putting in all 
> his time and effort to support other platforms for a handful of users.
> I remember when everyone said Linux would replace Windows, 7 years later
> and Windows is still the dominate OS. Linux is open source and even the
> commercial versions are dramatically cheaper than Windows, and Linux
> still does not have half of the marketshare. 
> 
> ----If you continue to do what you have always done,
> you will get what you have always gotten.----

I don't know if it would be called a wrapper or if it could be done.

But I would like to see a program that converts win32lib programs to wxEuphoria.

That wouled solve everything.

Don Cole
 A Bug is an un-documented feature.
A Feature is a documented Bug.