OpenEuphoria

Re: Win32Lib Handover

• Posted by spent memory <spent.memory at gmail.com> Nov 23, 2004
• 467 views

i know 1 thing, i'll be getting myself a copy of the win32lib 0.60.6
and sticking it in my DON'T DELETE archive, might get a stripped copy
too for finished proggy's , hopefully 1 can still purchase the full
version of Eu 2.4 from RDS , i don't like the way things seem to be
going around here.


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 03:45:16 -0600, Kat <gertie at visionsix.com> wrote:
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> On 22 Nov 2004, at 22:23, don cole wrote:
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> > posted by: don cole <doncole at pacbell.net>
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> > Derek Parnell wrote:
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> > > In about 10 or so days, I'll be handing over win32lib to the next
> > > generation of carers. I'd like it to be reasonably stable (no major
> > > errors) before I do that.
> > >
> >  Why do all the long time, hardcore Euphorians appear to be jumping ship?
> 
> We have been here a long time, we expected Eu to grow. We expected our
> requests would be heard, and our needs be met. I am looking for a language
> most like Eu, but with the same features i asked for 5 years ago, which RDS
> can't bring themselves to supply. Lua, Tk, Perl, Python, Php, mirc,, don't
> quite do it for me by themselves, but Eu could have been absolutely perfect,
> the top language to beat all languages. I'll probably go with Php. Or Bach....
> depending on the license terms regarding how i can use it on my own
> computers at home. OpenEu doesn't seem to be getting anywhere.
> 
> I am sorry to see Derek leave. I was sorry to see DavidC leave. Irv leaving
> too, and others. I can't figure how RobC's overriding concern for the original
> vision of the language is worth this brain drain of contributors. RDS should
> be
> hiring these people, not running them off. Shooting the language in the foot
> with 2.5, and then charging twice the price for it, is simply stunning.
> 
> Kat
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