OpenEuphoria

Re: Missing library

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Jul 14, 2004
• 803 views

On 13 Jul 2004, at 13:07, Tommy Carlier wrote:

> 
> 
> posted by: Tommy Carlier <tommy.carlier at pandora.be>
> 
> Pete Lomax wrote:
> > <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
> > >As it stands, not even Euphoria can programatically retrieve its own 
> > >version, can it?
> > 
> > This has been discussed before. You can try opening a %EUINC% file,
> > should start with eg "-- Euphoria 2.4". But in general you are right,
> > there is no way to properly do this.
> 
> I have an idea for an easy-to-use/easy-to-implement versioning system for the
> next version(s) of Euphoria: have the interpreter set an environment variable
> with its version, like EUVER="2.5 beta". That way, programmers can easily
> access
> the version-info and no new function has to be created. If the variable can't
> be
> found, the program knows its version 2.4 or earlier. No extra function means
> backward compatibility.

Jeeze, you might as well say everyone hasto write code in their program to 
check all the stuff you write to the envvars, and then update all their 
contributions in the archives! Why not go further, and say they haveto include 
the interpreter that their app was written to use??

Can two play this game?
Kat