OpenEuphoria

Re: Frozen language versions

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at ??ail.com> Aug 23, 2007
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CChris wrote:
> 
> A proportion of users appears to have a possibly large code base written using
> early versions (between 2.2 and 2.5) of Euphoria. They are primarily concerned
> by the need not to change a single line oj code in that base, which strangles
> the language to near death.

Have these people communicated with you personally?  I haven't seen these
messages on the list.  I think you're confusing the fact that many (most?)
people who use Euphoria probably don't want or need the language changed.

Then there are those (like me) who would like to see some changes made, but
don't want to make the language into something that feels completely 
different.  

> Would it be possibl for RDS to release almost frozen versions of say 2.2, 2.3,
> 2.4 and 2.5 with only applicable bug fixes, but absolutely no added features?
> This would probably meet the abovementioned needs better than new versions of
> the language, and might allow more development to proceed, while users of
> early
> versions would still benefit the bug fixes.

Heh, maybe if those people were willing to pay for the support (but I suspect
that the price would be pretty high).

Matt