OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria Features

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> Jul 16, 2005
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Ken Orr wrote:
> 
> Euman wrote:
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > my $0.04
> > 
> > As a Linux user (Fedora Core X sponsored by RedHat) Euphoria is 
> > an unacceptable tool for widespread use. The very fact that eu
> > isnt opensourced puts Euphoria on the very back burner.
> > 
> > Everyone seems to want certain enhancments that RDS is reluctant
> > to persue so as to not break any previously written material.
> > I can see the reasons why they are reluctant however, I suggest
> > a version of euphoria that can be made opensourced so the 1000's
> > of Linux programmers can extend and vote on feature that would
> > make euphoria a better choice over perl or python for the many 
> > scritps that are needed to run a safe, secure, powerful and stable
> > O/S. Surely there has to be benefits to RDS for the hard work already
> > placed on Euphoria. 
> > 
> > These should be the ideas we need to look at.
> > 
> > (just my personal opinion)
> > 
> > Euman
> > 
> 
> Putting Euphoria on the hand of 1000's developers would destroy's Euphoria
> simplicity
> and elegance.  It would be pulled on 1000's directions at once.  It the
> process
> to please everyone it would bloat up.
> 

And you have no idea how an open source project is managed. There is a core of a
few people, who does some work and accepts "patches" from other people and
decides whether these patches should be incorporated or not.

Regards, Alexander Toresson