bloated 2.5
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
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