OpenEuphoria

RE: Eu's poor design

• Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 16, 2003
• 490 views

eugtk at yahoo.com wrote:

> --- Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> wrote:
>  
> >    There are other more important issues that
> > prevent the use of
> >    Eu in serious (commercial) projects and it's
> > mainly about the
> >    lack of stable libraries for business
> > applications. Stuff like
> >    GUI handling and database access is available but
> > far from the
> >    level of stability and functionality that I need
> > to deliver for
> >    contract work for my clients.
> 
> Windows is also far from the level of stability and
> functionality that I need for my clients - 
> but I haven't let that stop me :)

   Yep, you are right there. But my clients are running Windows
   because they choose to and if their are stability issues, they
   wont shove it my way. But when I do a bid for contracting work,
   my clients expect me to deliver a stable product and if that
   product doesn't perform in itself they will hold my company
   liable.

   As a sidemark, we have a related policy in my company about how
   we develop software: we do not use any components outside of the
   development platform that need to be registered to the operating
   system or are a part of that operating system. So we don't use the
   windows registry (we have developed our own database for that),
   we don't use ActiveX, OCX, and other OS-dependant components and
   we dont put stuff into the windows OS directory (not even an INI-
   file). In that way we make sure that the stability of the OS has
   no effect on the stability of our application and the other way 
   around that our application will not and can not interfere with
   the stability of the OS. This has worked VERY good for us 

Hans Peter Willems