Re: direction
- Posted by Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM> Mar 24, 2000
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Robert Craig wrote: >At the moment I am very busy doing a major rewrite >of the Euphoria database system. The new version will >support large databases with good performance. >That should be out in a few days. The call interface won't >change, just the internals. >Soon after, I will set things up for multi-user access. >Maybe another few days. Not requested, but very nice. It may even get rid of the 1001 questions on how to get file IO right...at least when dealing with Euphoria data. Now, if we could more easily deal with non-Euphoria data. >The namespace improvements are definitely still on >the agenda. And have you no words about structures and modularity? As new libraries come out and projects get more ambitious the ball of code is just going to get bigger and bigger. >I still intend to port to new platforms, but nothing is >definite yet. Look below and see your excuse for how you have to use your time. I'm not against new platforms, but cross-platform capabilities seem to be missing when we cross platforms. How many more incompatible platforms do we want to code on? A common code base with cross-platform access to the basics of IO, a GUI or interface to one(there are several cross-platform GUI's that could be written to), and a means to easily access the rest of the code base on each platform...some form of flexible interface code. >I have a list of dozens of useful small improvements >that I would like to make. Yay...when. >Most of my time goes into non-programming matters, such >as advertising and promotion, tech support and general enquiries, >shipping disks, updating the Web site and Web Ring, >reading and replying on this mailing list etc. If you were a little more responsive to your users, the language might be selling enough to get you freed up to do the things mentioned above. Or are you a control freak that just can't let go of any of these things? You have claimed in the past that money isn't an issue. >I'm happy to get suggestions, but I can't afford to get sucked >into endless discussions of the type "please write me an >essay on why you don't like this really cool feature >that I just thought of?". > These are words of profound disrespect to your faithful and even adulatory users. There are a consistent set of features spoken about by most of the major contributors on the list. Neither Mr. West nor myself has asked for any such essay. What we are asking for is information from YOU on what YOU are thinking and where we are heading and approximately when. Right now, you talk like a petulant child that has been disturbed from his milk and cookies. Show some respect for those who have supported you and your work. Provide some feedback. Do some of that planning you so hate and give us the benefit of it. We are at your mercy. Everett L.(Rett) Williams rett at gvtc.com