OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria Developers Group Discussion

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowgar.c??> May 15, 2008
• 1014 views

Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> Mike777 wrote:
> > 
> > I don't see the bifurcated system as a prescription for avoiding user input
> > on any specific decision.  The fact that you feel this way is a very, very
> > good thing and will work to ensure that even if there is 100% consensus
> > amongst the developers somebody will no doubt suggest that it should at
> > least be mentioned on the Forum.  Good.
> 
> Personally, I like the idea of having a developers forum or mailing list, but
> I'd probably only use it for talking about implementation details that most
> people wouldn't want to hear.  Just like I tend to take conversations about
> other projects off-line.
> 
> For example, I don't think that most people are interested in the finer 
> points of crafting a Watcom makefile.  Or even hacking on the front end,
> which is all euphoria.
> 
> Matt

Agreed. Matt, should I set one up on SF for that use? Anyone who wants to listen
to use to chat about the horrors of making a Watcom makefile work on DOS, Win98
and XP/Vista are free to join.

I also think it would be OK for us to discuss *possible* improvements on the
developer list. For example, I may suggest "Hey, let's get rid of the include
statement and just make everyone write it all in a big file. That would be faster
for the parser." ... Immediately I'd be shot down on the developer list. No need
to panic the userbase about that!  But if we propose a function, syntax,
etc... and the majority of the developers think its a good idea, we can solicit
EUforum for input.

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com