OpenEuphoria

Re: Windows stuff...

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Sep 13, 2004
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:50:58 +0200, Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de>
wrote:

<snip & some>
>the API constants should ship with the official Euphoria distribution.
>This is normal for other languages such as <snip>
>I'd like to say here: KISS. I think it should be a plain include file.
>It works fine e.g. for the languages mentioned above, why shouldn't it
>be good for Euphoria?
I think it would be great for Euphoria, but RC is of a mind not to:
1)	support *any* os-biased stuff (over any other)
2)	do *anything* that *two* users could not do better.
3)	label "user contributions" as "substandard"

>RDS just has to include <whatever> in the official Euphoria
>distribution.
It hardly matters if it is available on "recent user contributions".
Make it and he might. Ask him to do what you cannot and he won't.

>since OpenEU isn't available yet
did I hear anyone volunteer to help me out recently? ;-((

>When there are suggestions for improvement to Euphoria, Rob often writes
>something like: You can do it yourself. While it's true, this is not the
>point. Of course, we can write this or that code snippet ourselfes, but
>we can't define standards ourselfes. That's actually up to RDS.
Bollocks. Define your own standards. Discuss this amongst youselves
and ride roughshod over RDS. What are you, man or mouse? Sure, maybe
at the moment you can't do this with the language, but a library?!?!!

Oh, all the above is tongue in cheek, of course... )
Pete