Re: direction
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
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