[Gambas-user] Re: [Gambas-devel] About next Gambas version

[Michael Isaac]

Benoit Minisini wrote:

>On Friday 07 January 2005 12:48, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote:
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>>El dom, 02-01-2005 a las 22:13 +0100, Benoit Minisini escribió:
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>>>The new development version of gambas will be numbered 1.1.x or 1.9.x, I
>>>am not completetly determined. Well, 1.9.x seems to be cool :-)
>>>
>>>BUT, as we must be able to install the current 1.0 and the next 2.0 on
>>>the same system, the package will be renamed 'gambas2'
>>>
>>>Things of gambas2 will be installed in /usr/lib/gambas2,
>>>usr/share/gambas2, and so on. The interpreter should be renamed too
>>>(gbx2), and I think the tools (gbi, gba, gbc, gambas,
>>>gambas-database-manager) will move in /usr/lib/gambas2/bin or something
>>>similar.
>>>
>>>So, the name of the current package is gambas-1.0.x.tar.bz2
>>>And the name of the development package will be gambas2-1.9.x.tar.bz2
>>>
>>>Is it clear for everyone ? :-)
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>>>
>>I didn't notice it the first time I read this email, but today I have
>>some points of disagreement with the new numbers for the next gambas
>>release.
>>I wouldn't like to see gbx, gbx2,gbx3 and so on in the following
>>releases. Or if they exist, I think at least there should be a diversion
>>with soft links from gbx to the gbxN the users wants, as it happens with
>>gcc.
>>Because.. projects made with the actual gambas version will run with the
>>new runtime, won't them?. In that case, these projects search gbx to
>>run, no gbx2. The same thing with compilation and so on...
>>I really don't see the need to rename the next release. As it is not a
>>production release, whoever desires to use it must know it is not safe,
>>and when it is ready for production it could replace without any problem
>>the actual release.
>>
>>Regards.
>>
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>Gambas 1.0 and Gambas 2.0 must be able to be installed on the same system, and 
>a program made with Gambas 2.0 needs the 2.0 version of the interpreter, and 
>so on.
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>So the simplest way to do that for me is to rename the package (gambas2) and 
>the executables (gbx2, gbc2, gbi2, ...).
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>I don't care of what gbx the user wants to run. The user never runs gbx. But 
>the compiled Gambas program chooses the gbx it wants to run, with the first 
>line in the archive: #!/usr/bin/gbx for a Gambas 1.0 program, and 
>#!/usr/bin/gbx2 for a Gambas 2.0 program.
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>How can you do that with gbx being a symbolic link on some version of Gambas 
>installed ?
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>Regards,
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You should just write a compiler like freeBASIC (fbc.sourceforge.net) 
and skip the interpreter completely.

:)