OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux command-line-oriented programs in Euphoria

• Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com> Jan 07, 2006
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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> Vincent wrote:
> > Robert Craig wrote:
> > > Two versions of exu will be provided (as well as 
> > > two PD Translator libraries, and two "Complete Edition" libraries). 
> > > The ncurses-based exu will continue to run ed. The new exu will 
> > > make some people happier, since it will do normal Linux/FreeBSD 
> > > terminal I/O. It will also eliminate the problems that some 
> > > people have with ncurses on their systems. 
> > > As Derek Newhall mentioned, it will be like the situation we have 
> > > now on Windows, where we have exw and exwc.
> > 
> > Will the bw/color trace screen and profiling still work in the non-ncurses
> > versions?
> 
> I suppose I could keep outputing the current line of source,
> and the variable values as they change, without having
> a full-screen display.
> 
> > Are you planning to add a "-no_curses" option to the translator and
> > binder/shrouder?
> 
> Yes. I guess there would be two backends for binding, and two
> libraries x (PD + Complete). (You can see why I was reluctant to 
> do this).
> 
> > You might provide a plain text document containing the list of routines that
> > wont work with the non-ncurses version. Are you going to add error messages
> > for unsupported routines in the non-curses translator libs and interpreters?
> 
> It might be better to quietly ignore position(), text_color(), etc.
> rather than issue a run-time error. Maybe a warning would be ok.
> 
> > Are you going to use the latest ncurses library, for the curses versions, in
> > the next release? Perhaps that may fix the known issues?
> 
> I'll try a newer one, but often if you use the latest of something, 
> it won't work on older versions of Linux/FreeBSD. Sometimes
> the lowest common denominator is a better choice.
> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>

OK... sounds good.

This might be useful to me as I'm planning to have a dual boot DesktopBSD and
Windows XP system.


Regards,
Vincent