OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria environment variables (was: quick cgi question)

• Posted by Salix <salix at freemail.hu> Apr 01, 2006
• 495 views

ChrisBurch2 wrote:
> 
> Juergen Luethje wrote:
> > 
> > I also encountered problems with the environment variables when running
> > Euphoria from a USB drive (on Windows XP).
> > 
> > Rob, I think usage of Euphoria would be simpler, if Euphoria would read
> > its settings from an INI file rather than from environment variables,
> > e.g.:
> > 
> > ---------------------------- Euphoria.ini ----------------------------
> > [Directories]
> > EUDIR=C:\Programs\Euphoria\
> > EUINC=C:\Programs\Euphoria\Arwen\bin\;C:\Programs\Euphoria\wxEuphoria\
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > The interpreter/translator just had to look for a file "Euphoria.ini" in
> > the same directory where it is located itself. 100% cross-platform, and
> > no hassle with environment variables any more. What do you think?
> > 
> 
> Thats a nice idea - how about reading from an ini file if present in the
> current directory, or falling back to environment variables if not present?

That would be really useful! Instead of the *.ini I could imagine an env.e 
with this content:

global constant EUDIR="C:\Programs\Euphoria\"
global constant
EUINC={"C:\Programs\Euphoria\Arwen\bin\","C:\Programs\Euphoria\wxEuphoria\"}

Regards,

Salix