Re: Visual Euphoria Library -- The End!!!
Gary,
Oh, no! It's a shame that you decided not to go with VEL. Can we do
anything to convince you that the project is valued by many people,
far more than the ones that answered the poll on your website.
You say you believe nothing further can be gained by extending the
development of the library, but I think there is a lot that can be
gained.
Although I appreciate Win32Lib by David Cuny, I think VEL005 is a
very good development environment, and the use of it is easier than
writing a program using Win32Lib, especially for "dummies" like
myself. After the inclusion of Greg Harris' event handler it became
even easier. Maybe the majority of the programmers on this Euphoria
listserver don't want to call themselves "dummies", and they prefer
doing things the hard way. For that *is* what I think; writing and
maintaining a progam with the VEL library is done much quicker than
with the Win32Lib library.
So, that's my point: discussion are *very* welcome on this topic!!
A few days ago I had a private email exchange with you, Gary, and
you seemed to be very enthousiastic about how things were going in
developing VEL006. You even spoke of you being quite far with an
Integrated Development Environment, making the use of VEL even
easier. And now you say that 'you have another venture that you are
going to actively pursue'. Please, reconsider your decision in
favour of the Euphoria community, at least the ones in the
community that are interested in Win32 programming. (I say this to avoi=
d discussions with 'Window smashers' like Jiri Babor :)).
I think it is a good thing that there are 2 'competing' approaches,
Win32Lib and VEL, and above that, they are not mutually exclusive,
they can live together in the same application, as far as I know.
I sincerely hope your mail and this response are going to produce a
long and usefull thread of messages, and that the result wil be the
further development of VEL =C3=A0nd Win32Lib.
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> Hi All,
> =C2=A0
> I want to thank all of you for the interest you have shown in the dev=
elopment of the Visual Euphoria Library (VEL). Although I believe there=
is nothing further to be gained by extending the development of the li=
brary, I wanted to let all of you know that I have truly appreciated yo=
ur continued support and interest.
> =C2=A0
> The numbers from the poll on my WEB site verified my suspicion that o=
nly a handful of developers were experimenting with VEL. Although I gai=
ned a great deal of pleasure from it's development, I only took on such=
a large project with the hope that the user community would make some =
use of the tools provided. Unfortunately... that doesn't seem to be the=
case.
> =C2=A0
> One good thing has come out of it though... It seems to have played s=
ome role in inspiring David Cuny to rededicate himself to extending his=
Win32Lib project. Euphoria NEEDS a GUI library if it is to gain a larg=
er support base. Hopefully, David's library will help do this.
> =C2=A0
> Anyway... thanks again for your support. I have another venture that =
I am going to actively pursue... so maybe our paths will cross again in=
the future.
> =C2=A0
> Thanks... Gary.
> =C2=A0
> =C2=A0
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