Re: Euphoria needs more popularity!

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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> During that time I spent a year designing, developing and porting the
> Euphoria to C Translator to 4 platforms and 7 different C compilers.
> I should have merged that information into the release notes.
> 

Well, I guess I have to retract my earlier statement...RDS does get
involved in these discussions!

> > I would prefer a major release every 6 months with weekly minor (patch)
> > releases, instead of this cold molasses. 
> 
> That's what I keep telling myself.
> It just never works out that way.
> There's just a lot of overhead in getting 
> a new release out, plus when do I charge for an upgrade?

When to charge for upgrade?  WHENEVER YOU WANT!!!!!!!!!!!  It's your 
product!  Obviously if you charge for every little change then you'll 
hack some people off.  I would even be open to a "maintenance" based
system where we could pay a fixed $ every year for the priveledge of 
getting the upgrades whenever they come out.

OR...go to a V.R.M system and charge whenever the R changes?  That would
be very similar to what you're doing now and if you change the R 
every year you'd be getting about the same result.

> >  Has anyone impartially inspected or reviewed your code?
> 
> Not besides Junko, but very soon the entire world will
> be able to inspect the front-end of Euphoria, and everyone will
> own a complete Euphoria interpreter with 100% Euphoria source code,
> able to run all Euphoria programs on all platforms.

Rob, from my perspective I have very little interest in the front-end
of the interpreter or having a 100% Euphoria-based interpreter.  What I 
need is a stable product that solves the problem at hand.  My guess would
be that I'm not alone on this...

Jonas

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