bloated 2.5

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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

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