OpenEuphoria

Open Source, then...?

• Posted by akusaya at gmx.net Nov 11, 2006
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Nice to see the Eu went open source, .. at least in the following 2-3
days after the open source release.

Now what happens to Eu? Looks like no different from before.

Maybe some people now already started to make their own version of Eu,
and in a year maybe 4 different Euphoria derivatives come (e.g.
Elation, Bliss, Joy, Exhilaration..).. and very possibly none of them
has a significant market.

I think what is absolutely needed now is a repository of code (where
people can contribute codes, like other open source projects like
Firefox). Documentations should be there also, so that users don't
need to say "There is this mistake in this doc page!" in this mailing
list anymore.

Currently if one encounters a bug, he/she will report to Rob via this
mailing list and then Rob will fix it in the next release (which is
indeed faster but still 2-3 weeks which is too slow!).

Having the repository will fix the bug in 1 or 2 days (provided more
and more people come to understand the C codes).

Actually everyone can make Eu source code repository but it would be
better and more courteous if Rob make it himself.

Any opinions?