OpenEuphoria

Re: Portability, COM, and some interfacing

• Posted by leviathan at uswest.net Mar 15, 2001
• 455 views

> Mike The Spike writes:
> > Rob, when can we expect these features?
> 
> Hmmm... by replying to your message,
> I will have to delay *all* future features
> by 10 minutes.  
> 
> Seriously, I expect to have DLL support before
> the 1.0 release of the translator.
> The other things you mentioned are uncertain.

Rob, one of the stupidest things, IMO, is to act stupid with your 
clients/future clients/community, even if they may be / be like MTS.

And, I'll add, that this is too an important feature I'm looking for in 
Euphoria too. And, you belong looking over your shoulder at OS X 
as a place to port Euphoria to, at least for the side of Mac platforms. 
(Anything before OS X is a pain in the ass, AFAIK)

And, with how much MTS talks of porting Euphoria to console 
macines (This will be something to behold come the time of the 
PS3), you should start thinking about licensing the core Euphoria 
language to others under a code improvement clause like the GPL 
has, plus under a NDA, NoComp, NoProfit, and the "all code used in 
this is property of" clause. (You're gonna need a lawyer for this - 
IANAL, but you're gonna need one) All this would start driving 
Euphoria in branching directions, and if MTS can adhere to such a 
contract (For innovation of this language, I think I could, as long as 
the contract wasn't too outrageous... I'd talk to (the smarter side of) 
my friends, my dad, and maybe even find a friend whos family has 
done some legal work), he would be a magnificant start to bringing 
Euphoria beyond where it is now (due to the fact there would be 
another on the project - instead of just you, Rob) and quickly... 
However, I just thought about the other times such ideas were brung 
up, and didn't the case come out to be that you were stubborn of the 
idea of having others on the project with you, Rob?

Anyway, the point of this rant: I want to see portability, ability to plug 
into COM objects, interfacing, and the licensing of this language to 
people who want to develop this language too.

Your comments, Rob?

TIA,

--"LEVIATHAN"