OpenEuphoria

RE: Yet another IDE

• Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Jul 26, 2003
• 447 views

Hello Greg,

Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> I'd certainly like to help with the project. I'm really good with 
> algorithms
> and file i/o. 

   All help is welcome 

> I also have the Complete Edition Translator with Borland 5.5
> compiler, so if you want a full working executable, I can spit one out.

   I have the full edition as well. I'm actually aiming to have the
   new IDE to set all the stuff up as a usable environment.
   Most of the IDE will be developed using itself (bootstrapping
   in action) 

> Speaking of the Translator, perhaps since this will be such a large 
> project,
> maybe we should chop it up into libraries (dll's). That way, when it is
> released, and something is updated, just a new dll needs to be 
> downloaded,
> rather than some huge 500k+ zip file.

   At first, everything is going to be done in pure code, but I've
   already set up the coding framework and it is completely modular
   (every specific functionality has it's own code-file).

> Also, I believe Euman is finishing his
> installer soon, so we could package it in that.

   Any installer can be used with the system, it has to be as "open"
   as possible.
 
> I think its about time Euphoria had a professional-looking (acting,
> thinking) product out on the market. Something to show that we're not 
> just
> playing around, but we're for serious.

   I have been looking around to see what commercial level software
   could be build with Euphoria and couldn't find anything that was
   realy finished and polished. So I agree that this could be a
   "showcase" application.
   I want to add that I am a professional developer and the quality
   standard that I expect from such an application is quite high.
   This means that a lot of time in this project will be devoted to 
   seemingly trivial things like have the app remember all the screen
   settings (window size, sizer placing, etc.) for each user.

> I've been a loyal Eu programmer for
> about 4 years now, I think i started with v2.2, and I love everything
> everyone's written, but along with this thread on "Modern Windows 
> Screens"
> and this "Yet another IDE" we could come up with a very nice looking 
> app.

   

Hans Peter Willems