Re: Help Wanted (EUPHORIA source)
Shawn Pringle wrote:
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> Suppose, someone wants to try out Euphoria's 4.0 features or to actually
> run some tests. Suppose I want to tryout a new linux kernel. I download it
> and compile it and select the options I need. It compiles. I don't have to
> modify the source. I don't even have to know C.
You are comparing a stable (post beta) release of the linux kernel to a
pre-alpha checkout of Euphoria? (Yes, not even a release yet, just a checkout.)
How often have you tried to check out the kernel source from git and made the
bleeding edge version compile???
Also, it seems quite crazy that we have to wait until 4.1 to be able to use 4.0
features in the stdlib. Matt Lewis has already solved the chicken and egg problem
- even for the alpha release, the code will come pretranslated for you. So no
bootstrap and no euphoria requred. Just a good C compiler.
> Now, EUPHORIA,
> you download and you cannot never compile it right out of the box as with
> Linux
> and EUPHORIA only really runs on three OSes. WINDOWS and DOS being one
> platform
> and each version interfaces with that oS in a different way, the other two
> being
> Linux and BSD. It only works on x86 hardware. Yet, even with this tighter
> platform restriction you need to manually modify the source before building.
>
Yes, it is rather unfortunate that no one provided precompiles executables like
http://jeremy.cowgar.com/files/eu40bins-578.zip to allow you to build yourself.
> So, by putting up this barrier Jeremy and friends have (I suppose
> inadvertently)
> restricted those who will bother even trying it out.
Currently, a few simple changes, it is not so bad, considering that the target
is (for right now) those who already undersgtand euphoria. It is very annoying,
however.
>
> Shawn Pringle B.Sc.
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