OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria and apt

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at g?ail.c?m> Sep 21, 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.
> 

Well, just because nobody has bothered to package Euphoria for Debian/Ubuntu. Or
rather, I packaged Euphoria 2.5 for Debian, and then uploaded the package to
rapideuphoria.com (and didn't get any sponsor to upload it to Debian itself, as
getting it included wasn't very feasible as Euphoria wasn't open source back
then, and my package wasn't really policy-compliant in any way, it had no source
package etc etc). But this may be very possible now. Basically, there isn't
someone or a group of people deciding on that they want these languages included
in Debian, instead single persons decide that they want to package something.
That Euphoria isn't in Debian yet just means that noone has decided to do so yet.
Actually, I did look at packaging Euphoria 3.0, but it turned out to be quite
complicated, especially because of the (quite odd) build system/makefiles used to
build it.

Regards, Alexander Toresson