OpenEuphoria

Re: Integrate or Separate?

• Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at nt.net> Nov 09, 2006
• 1101 views

Ray Smith wrote:
> 
> Chris S wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > Secondly, I was wondering if there was any consideration of integrating
> > win32lib
> > or wxEuphoria with the main Euphoria distribution?  And perhaps choosing one
> > of the usermade editors as the Euphoria standard editor?
> 
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Just 2 quick points:
> 
> 1.  At least initially (and probably long term) I think Euphoria should remain
> 
> minimal with respect to dependencies.  This makes the the language itself
> easier
> to maintain and port to different OS's.
> 
> 2.  I believe emphasis should be pushed towards cross platform tools.
> For GUI's wxEuphoria would be my vote.  
> I don't think it needs to be part of the base Euphoria install though.  
> As time goes on maybe an "extended" version of Euphoria will be created which
> 
> is the last stable release of Euphoria plus a number of useful libraries and
> tools.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ray Smith
> <a href="http://RaymondSmith.com">http://RaymondSmith.com</a>

I second that.
The last thing I want to see is the official Euphoria pkg being distributed with
a pile of intergrated functionality.

Everyone has their own preferences of what API's they choose to use.

A detailed list of major API's and a comparison of them would be most helpful to
everyone, rather than spotlighting one or 2.

Chris Bensler
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