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[Radoslav Dejanovic]

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 04:35 am, Ken Schrock wrote:
> >But perhaps we should wait for Gambas to get some maturity on Linux
> > platform first, before migrating to other platforms?
> You mean wait until Gambas is big and ugly like VB 4.0 before it is ported?

No, I'd be happy if it could compile out of the box on my SuSE :))
This is the first thing why we should consider Gambas immature at this point.
While the language and underlying algorythms might be perfect, the fact that 
it doesn't compile out of the box is really bad thing. It prevents language 
from being included with distributions (SuSE has only some old release, 
perhaps because of building troubles?), and the rapid development stage (as 
is happening now) will prevent everyone but experienced programmer from 
giving it a try. 

So what we have here, as I see it, are two things: disability to compile out 
of the box, which is a bad, bad thing, and fast development, which is just 
great. But these two do make Gambas immature. The first step should be 
to try to solve building showstoppers. 

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Radoslav Dejanović
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