OpenEuphoria

Re: New Install Program

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Feb 23, 2002
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Craig" <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>

> 
> Thanks to Al Gonzalez and INNO Setup,
> we now have a nice modern-looking install program
> for Euphoria (WIN32+DOS32).

> <snip..>

Hey y'all

Im outspoken and speak my mind all the time, anyone who's been on 
this list for any length of time knows.

With this said here's another...

To everyone who's writing programs in Euphoria I would like
to extend to you that this installer was NOT writen in Euphoria.

WHY ROBERT?

Is it because Euphoria is a toy language?

If EUPHORIA isnt a toy then why isnt an installer writen in
EUPHORIA?

I have several installer GUI's myself, one that I made look similar to 
Al Gonzalez' installer....I submitted a few lines of this to Rob.
"I think" 
he's scared someone will actually look at the code and be put off
by the fact that Windows programming in Euphoria takes twice the
typing.
 
I know of three other people (Euphoria Guru's) much better programmers
than I am or ever will be that are/hmm writting installers as we speak.

Here's what Rob wrote me:

>I wouldn't want you to waste your time.
>Perhaps you could get the size down to 650K,
>but it's going to take a lot of your time, and some
>of mine, and it will need a lot of testing on various systems.
>It also might not be as easy for me to use.
>There's also the issue that some people think Euphoria
>must be a "toy" language if it's only 596K

So you increase the D/L size to almost a 1meg thinking people
wont think its a toy anymore but they're asking now why wasnt 
the installer coded in Euphoria .. hehe

Y'all think about it y'hear.

Euman
euman at bellsouth.net