OpenEuphoria

RE: bloated 2.5

• Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at nt.net> Nov 18, 2004
• 536 views

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> 
> posted by: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> 
> Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I don't understand the hysteria on this point.
> > On XP you just right-click a file,
> > choose "Open with...", and then select the program
> > you want to use with that file type.
> > You don't have to venture into the registry.
> > Other Windows versions let you do the same thing just as easily.
> 
> Are you serious ?!?!
> 
> First point: I've gone to the trouble of setting permanent associations 
> for E EX EW EXW files to run my preferred editor. Then I install the
> next Eu and bang! - I'm forced go and set these up again. Your 
> installation
> should be polite and ask first, rather than barge in and assume you can
> mess up my explicit settings.
> 
> Second point: The Right-Click and "Open with..." is not something I want
> to do everytime I wish to edit a source file using my preferred editor.
> Okay, so I can tick the 'Use this always in future' check box. But I 
> had already done that so why did you force me to do it again. This is
> just impolite behaviour. Good user interface behaviour is to respect
> the user's previous choices.
> 
> > I will however use Juergen's INNO solution and
> > make it an option to associate Euphoria file types
> > with the usual Euphoria programs. That means some
> > beginners will turn it off, and later wish they
> > had left it on.
> 
> Why do you assume they will turn it off? They are beginners not morons.
> 
> If you distrust beginners so much, then have a "standard" option
> in which these associations are always done and a "custom" one 
> in which you always ask the user. However, I would suspect the
> better behaviour would be ... if no associations exist, then create them
> otherwise leave them alone. 
> 
> -- 
> Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia

Just provide the files, without the stupid installer, it doesn't do 
anything for updrades anyways.
How hard is it to make a zip file. The instructions of how to setup the 
environment are already there.

I agree that the installer should have standard and custom options.
But I wasn't expecting Rob to bother with that much effort.
Just give us the files, so we don't have to use the installer, and he 
can take all the time he wants.

Chris Bensler
Code is Alchemy