OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria and Xwindows

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> Jul 26, 1999
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David Cuny writes:
> So Robert, is there any possibility of getting a
> version of GraphApp embedded into Euphoria,
> or is there a problem with licensing/you'd prefer
> not to tie Euphoria to another product/some other
> compelling reason?

I tried out Irv's example programs and GraphApp wrapper,
and I was impressed with how much he's been able to do
in a short time, and with the simplicity of his example code.
I used Red Hat 5.2.

I don't plan to "embed" GraphApp into Euphoria.
Irv seems to be doing fine without my doing that.

My basic philosophy is to only put stuff into exu (ex.exe, exw.exe)
that really *has* to be there. I'm always happier to implement
a library routine in Euphoria than in C. For example,
sort(), display_image(), read_bitmap() etc. could have
been done in C inside the interpreter to gain a bit of
performance, but I'd rather have library source code
that is open, and easily modified by users or myself.
It also saves memory for programs that don't need the
library routine.

GraphApp is covered by the GNU library licence, so as a
static library it has "strings" attached to it that I would
like to avoid. Even as a dynamic library I don't think I want
to fill up exu with calls to it. Euphoria users are completely
free to dynamically link with it and use it.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility of *ever* statically
linking with a GNU library, but for the time being I
don't want to cross that line.

Regards,
     Rob Craig
     Rapid Deployment Software
     http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/