OpenEuphoria

Re: Leave DOS?!

• Posted by amux <jjsg at abc.se> Feb 21, 2006
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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> akusaya wrote:
> > I wonder why RDS still plan to support DOS in the future.
> > Do we really need DOS support?
> > 
> > Why not just allocate more time to think about new features or new
> > language construct? Or porting to Mac OSX which should not be so
> > difficult since it mostly resembles linux in the API.
> > 
> > Windows still provides DOS emulation because they have LOT of people
> > to work on it. But a single manned company making Eu will waste a lot
> > of time to develop for DOS.
> > 
> > Is there any reason why RDS still wants to support DOS?
> > 
> > Is it because of easy graphics routines for newbies?
> 
> It doesn't cost that much to continue to support DOS.
> For example, all of the multitasking code that I've
> developed in the past few months is generic, i.e. it's the
> same code on all platforms.
> 
> In the past couple of days, I've done some DOS-specific testing
> while evaluating Open Watcom, but it has been a while since
> I developed a significant new feature just for DOS.
> 
> People who are new to Euphoria, or new to programming, will probably
> find it easier to develop a small program in DOS, rather than Windows.
> 
> A lot of what you can do with ex, can also be done
> using exwc, but what about Language War? 
> Actually, someone should really develop a Windows library
> to emulate Euphoria's DOS graphics.
>
Yes yes yes , a Windows library in the Eu 2.6 Official Release so we can develop
and run Windows GUI programs.
 

/amux 
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