RE: New Install Program
euman at bellsouth.net wrote:
If "possible" I agree that the installer should be written in
Euphoria.
Are there any installers currently available that work as well as
Inno setup? If there are I agree that a Euphoria version should
be used. If not I'm very happy with any better installer.
I think Rob making a better Euphoria installer for win32 + Dos32
version is well overdue and I'm glad he did it.
(even though I just finished writting a chapter on how to install
Euphoria in my up coming ebook!)
What you are saying (something I feel you hate to admit) but
something I agree with you is ....
"there are some(many?) programming tasks that Euphoria isn't the
best choice for. Inno setup is written in Delphi and really it is
a better development tool for writting some standalone apps like
installers and many GUI based apps. As good as win32lib it can't
compete with multi million dollar companies.
In some respects (and I've been on record as saying this before)
Euphoria is a toy language.
It does have some very useful features in defined programming
situations but it really isn't (yet) a general programming tool for
all programming problems.
That doesn't mean it can't be in the future, this will take alot of
work from many people.
In the meantime be happy with what it can do.
Regards
Ray
[snip]
> 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
>
>
Ray Smith
http://rays-web.com
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