[Gambas-user] Form embedding, building devel version

[Rob]

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:22, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> Why is the fact that Gambas is an interpreter stopping it from
> producing ELF binaries?  My request is as follows:
[...]
> I'm not suggesting that this sort of mechinism should
> *replace* the current, but it might be a handy option to have.

I agree; this is probably one of the most commonly requested 
features.  I think as soon as someone with both the interest and 
the know-how comes across the Gambas project, it will get 
done.... for now, you and I have the interest but speaking only 
for myself, I wouldn't have the faintest idea how to write a 
native code compiler.  On the other hand, Benoit probably knows 
how but has always meant for Gambas to be an interpreted 
language.  (What I'd love to see even more than native code 
compilation is a way to run Gambas "scripts" without compiling 
them first.... I submitted a proof of concept of this which was 
very kludgy, but I think this will be necessary to get "Gambas 
ASP" off the ground eventually.)

For my part, I'm just going to continue agitating on behalf of 
Gambas so that it becomes part of every distribution by default 
eventually, and people won't fret so much about whether Gambas 
is installed on target machines just as they don't fret anymore 
about whether Perl or Python is installed on target machines. ;)

Rob