OpenEuphoria

Re: I got that mail below. Any comments ?

• Posted by "Cuny, David at DSS" <David.Cuny at DSS.CA.GOV> Nov 13, 2000
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Theo Gottwald quoted "Mr. Voluntary Banned For Life" 

> There are plenty of free install utilities
> that would create the correct directory structure,
> add the path, make the associations and possibly
> even start a basic tutorial if we had one.

Some time back, since I was testing various installers anyway, I created an
install package for Euphoria using Inno Setup, an excellent freeware package
at:

   http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm

The result was a larger file that did pretty much the same thing that we
currently have (other than having the ability to set file associations). It
didn't seem to me demonstrably better, although it certainly looked a lot
nicer.

I suppose that when the Win32 IDE is complete, you might be able to shield
the absolute beginner from dealing with the command line and (horrors!)
actually figuring out how to read the documentation.

Until then, I think it's safe to say that programming is fairly complex, and
requires some minimal level of skills. If you can't launch a program from
the command line, it seems to me that perhaps it's a gauge that you're
likely to have even more difficulty with the tasks that follow.

-- David Cuny