OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria and apt

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.??m> Sep 20, 2007
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Jerry Story wrote:
> 
> Euphoria has 6 projects listed on freshmeat under 'Euphoria'.
> But Euphoria is not listed in the Synaptic Package Manager.
> 
> The following languages have zero projects on freshmeat
> but are listed in the Synaptic Package Manager.
> Brainf**k
> Icon
> Chill
> Intercal
> Faust
> Cobol
> Oberon
> Nemerle
> Octare
> SPL
> Treelang
> Zinc
> 
> These languages are not even listed under 'programming language'
> on freshmeat. That suggests there there are no projects on freshmeat
> written in any of these languages. Yet you can install all these
> languages with apt (Advanced Package Tool).
> 
> I figure why not Euphoria, which has 6 projects listed under
> 'Euphoria' on freshmeat.
> 
> (After Euphoria, then the next step will be to do the same with wxEuphoria.)

Well, there is a Debian package in the archive, although it's an older version
of Euphoria:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/euphoria-pd_2.5-1_i386.deb

I thought about updating it, just haven't got around to it. It seems pretty
straightforward and there are good resources on the net for making your own
packages.

--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.