OpenEuphoria

Re: Open Source Exu

• Posted by Martin Stachon <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz> Nov 16, 2002
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jbrown wrote:
> On  0, phil long <tinstaafl at attbi.com> wrote:
> > I like the idea of an open-source EXU.  So long as the folks who work on 
> > it haven't seen Rob's code (or maybe even if they have, if Rob OKs it), 
> > there wouldn't be any copyright violations, and I don't think Rob has 
> > any patents on his code.  I, for one, have been champing at the bit to 
> > port EU to CYGWIN, a U**X-y port of the FSF tools to WinX platforms, but 
> > with a layoff in the offing and no raise this year, I can't scratch 
> > together the bucks for the source.  Doing the entire job by oneself is 
> > daunting, but as the open-source community has discovered, many coding 
> > hands makes for lighter work for all.  Better yet, if the 'maintainer' 
> > gets tired of the job, he can always hand it off to somebody else; best 
> > of all, as with any open-source project, anybody could maintain his own 
> > personal version.  Are you putting together an open-source effort?
> > 
> > thx, phil long
> > 
> 
> Basicly, I hope to start one. I'm mostly coding on my own these first few
> days
> (err.. day), but eventually, yes, I do hope to start an open-source
> effort.
> 
> Everyone is welcome to join, but beware, we're talking about major C
> coding
> here.
> 
> Also, be sure to thank Pete Erblein, I'm using his Peu v. 0.12.2 as a
> starting point.

I've got my own messy PEU (most of it done in May) :

http://www.webpark.cz/stachon/en
http://www.webpark.cz/stachon/files/notes.txt

also at : http://eberlein.org/euphoria/

    Martin