OpenEuphoria

Re: Including shrouded files (was: <no subject>)

• Posted by euphoria at carlw.legend.uk.com Jun 26, 2001
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PatRat wrote:

> Tony wrote:

> > Someone - sorry, too lazy to look up the post :( - was talking about
> > shrouded libraries in relation to the namespace issue. Does Eu support
> > including of shrouded libraries? If so, is it unique to the registered
> > version (I'm still playing with the PD release)?
>
> Yes, you can include shrouded files, I don't think you can shroud a
> library with the PD release but you can use an already shrouded one.

Essentially true, but the routine names would have to be left clear upon
shrouding (it's a bind/shroud option) otherwise the library wouldn't be much
good... ;)

Suggestion for Eu2.3 (I'm not sure whether Rob is already considering this):

Give PD users the ability to turn pre-shrouded files into executables. This
would reduce, at a stroke, the distribution size of most Euphoria packages.

For distributions to people who don't _have_ the PD release a simple EXE is
the best idea - unless there's supposed to be more than one EXE in the
package. Here, I suggest a cut down version of bind.ex* to be supplied with
pdex* distributed with the shrouded source files.

/me rereads and wonders if I stated the point properly...

Comments? Flames?
Carl W.