Re: Detecting the Eu version
Irv Mullins wrote:
> Igor Kachan wrote:
>
> >
> > What do you know about dozens of thousands EU users at all?
> > If you want a version(), use the ready one just now.
>
> The people who have asked for 'version' are the same people
> who have contributed several hundred thousand dollars worth of
development
> work to the Euphoria community (see win32lib, ide, etc). Even if no one
> else had asked, you'd think Rob would be willing to do 5 minutes worth of
> work as a 'thank you'.
Ok, but no one knows how many hundred thousand dollars they got
using their Euphoria skills.
And it is not an interesting subject for me, be sure.
> Now, if you are referring to the plan you submitted, it should be obvious
> why that can't work. In addition to what Jergen posted:
It works almost on all pre-2.5 versions, which have machine_func(22,s)
implemented.
1.0 has just a wrapped DOS DIR command.
> 1. What happens when version 2.5 reaches "official" status, and then,
> after a couple of months, Rob fixes some minor, obscure bug which causes
> the size of the file to change by a few bytes? I *am* running 2.5, but
> your code says "Sorry, this requires 2.5".
>
> 2. How do you write code to allow "2.5 or better", when you have no idea
what
> size 2.6 will be? Yet, isn't it very likely that code written for 2.5
will
> also run just fine on 2.6 (and later) versions?
Try please:
!with 2.5 -- add your comment here, the 'with' word is blue
or
With 3.0 only -- add your comment here, the 'With' word is black
Works on 2.5, just now, at compile time.
Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru
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