OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria Standard Library on UBoard

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jul 25, 2005
• 514 views

D. Newhall wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:
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>> Matt Lewis wrote:
>>
>>> Juergen Luethje wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking of a small ESL mailing-list with a maximum of say 20-30
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>>>> participants.  I don't think I can set up an Euphoria mailing-list
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>>>> with about 400 members. However, I'll look more closely into it.
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>>
>> In the meantime, I've read the docs of my e-mail provider, and now I
>> know what the problem is: All subscribing and unsubscribing for any
>> member must be done by me manually. I certainly do not want to do so
>> for 400 members.
>
> Yeah, but do you really think 400 people would sign up?

Previously someone had suggested to use that list for all EUforum
members (as replacement for Topica).

I just wanted to say then:
I'll offer this option for an ESL mailing-list (estimated 20-30 members),
but not for the whole EUforum (estimated 400 members).

> I'd expect only around 20 probably.
>
>>> If you set it up on Sourceforge, you can set up a mailing list hosted by
>>> Sourceforge.
>>
>> Ah, thanks for the info.
>>
>> What do other people (especially Christian, Jason, Derek, and Gordon)
>> think about setting up ESL on Sourceforge?
>> Christian, the old standard library page on Sourceforge has completely
>> vanished, hasn't it?
>
> I have no problem with it. It could also be good for storing the files
> up there and not having to worry about bandwidth issues.
>
> Also, another small issue to discuss:
>
> The filename for the proposed file "num_types.e" is 9 characters long
> and would get truncated in DOS. Rename to numtypes.e? (or even
> numeric.e or number[s].e?)

If nobody objects, I'll rename it to 'numtypes.e'. OK?

Regards,
   Juergen