bloated 2.5
- Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at nt.net> Nov 17, 2004
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First of all. A few years ago when people were vying for a windows installer for euphoria, myself included, we didn't mean to make it the ONLY solution. I was perfectly happy using the console based installer, even if I have to configure my own environment variables. The the purpose of the hand-holding setup installer was to help cater to new users more. Now you've gone and completely turned the table Robert. Give us our console-based installer back. Second, since when does the euphoria translator have anything to do with the interpeter. When I download the interpreter, that's what I want. Not a whole bunch of files that I can't use. I have absolutely no interest in the translator, and I wasted time trying to figure out what all those stubs were, and then I deleted them anyways. Over 2MB!? Sheesh, and I thought you were concerned about bloating the distributable. There isn't even any information about those files other than a brief file description in bin.doc Same thing for the Eu-in-Eu source code. It's novel for the time being, but in 6 months, people aren't going to care about the Eu-in-Eu source code. It doesn't appear that it's useful for anything more than making some utilities like a custom debugger or script engine. It's definitely not a replacement for the compiled interpreter, and there doesn't appear to be any way for PD users to build a front end that can be used with the binary backend. It should be a separate download. Correct me if I'm wrong, maybe it just needs to be documented better. If all I wanted was an eu script engine, David Cuny made one over 5 years ago. Several other people have made them too. This Eu-in-Eu being included with the PD distributable seems like a gimmick to me. Hopefully I'm wrong, and there is indeed a way for PD users to make IL code that can be run by backend.exe Third, PUT SOME EFFORT INTO YOUR INSTALLER!! Don't you know that everybody judges a book by it's cover, despite the cliche? The setup is extremely undesirable. Especially for seasoned users. I have to resort to installing new copies of Euphoria on an alternate machine, and manually copy it over to my workstation, because I don't want it mucking up my custom eu environment. Chris Bensler Code is Alchemy