OpenEuphoria

Re: A Portable API for Euphoria

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM> Apr 02, 1998
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David Cuny wrote:
> 1. Robert: Is there likely to be a Mac/Linux port in the near future?
> There's no point in doing all this work if Euphoria is going to remain
> locked to the WinTel architecture forever.

That's a good question. I can't give a definitive answer right now.
I would like to see a version of Euphoria running on Linux and
the Mac, but there are difficult issues that I haven't resolved yet.
Such as:
       - who is going to do it? Me? Junko? Someone I authorize?
         Should I just release the core source to the world (minus
         the DOS/Windows-specific code)?

       - will it be totally free, or will there be a registered version?

       - who controls the evolution of the language? Will there be
          17 different flavors of Euphoria floating around?

       - etc.

If someone other than myself does a port, I'm sure
they will need a lot of my help to get started. The code was designed
more for speed than for portability. It uses some WATCOM-specific
routines and features, although when I first ported from Atari to PC
I got it compiled and running using GNU C, before switching to
WATCOM.

Compared to DOS+Windows, Linux and Mac are both small
markets. I suspect that most
Linux people expect to get their programming languages,
and everything else, completely free including
full source code (Perl, Python, GNU, etc.).

I'll be thinking about these strategic issues
over the next few weeks. If anyone has any ideas,
let me know.

Regards,
     Rob Craig
     Rapid Deployment Software