OpenEuphoria

RE: Euphoria.NET

• Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at ix.net.au> Feb 18, 2004
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Hayden McKay wrote:
> Win32lib.ew Will be the only library to be needing an upgrade to support
> Longhorn.
> EU will run fine without having to be ported to Longhorn.
> 
> We will only need the extra Longhorn stuff wrapped into win32lib.ew.

... 2 cents of comments from someone who doesn't know anything about 
Longhorn!

Can I assume Longhorn will be able to run win32 based exe's?
If so Euphoria will work.

I have a suspicion that Longhorn may treat current win32 based exe's 
the same way Windows 9x/2000/XP treat DOS apps though.
I assume MS will try and phase out the current crop of applications 
and try and force developers into the .NET platform.
I don't beleive a current Euphoria application calling a few Longhorn
DLL's will provide the resources needed to be fully ".NET" or
"Longhorn" compatiable. (I assume this means something like an 
application being able to be run as "managed" code?)
Some features may be able to be accessed this way but I doubt for 
instance you would be able to access all features of the .NET platform.

This might not be a major problem by the way as I beleive MS have a 
pretty large fight on their hands with regard to .NET anyway.

Regards, 

Ray Smith
http://rays-web.com


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Philip Deets" <philip1987 at hotmail.com>
> To: <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:04 AM
> Subject: Euphoria.NET
> > I am concerned with euphoria's compatibility with Windows Longhorn's new
> > features.  Windows Longhorn will support all previous win32 programs, so
> > eu will still work, but I think to access the new features, a program
> > must use the Longhorn API.  The Longhorn API will be very similar to the
> > current .NET .  Will euphoria be able to use features intended for use
> > by managed languages, such as C#?
> >
> > Maybe a new euphoria platform will be necessary.  Perhaps there could be
> > Linux & FreeBSD eu, Win32 and DOS eu, and Longhorn eu.  If this extra
> > platform issue could be avoided that would be great.  I'll leave this
> > issue with those who are more knowledgable than I in these areas.