El lun, 20-08-2007 a las 08:11 -0700, Gandalf Parker escribió: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Jos L. Redrejo Rodrguez wrote: > >> It might be a good idea to include BLASSIC as a package. > >> > >> The two BASICs in the catalog now seem abit dead. YaBasic is being > >> dropped by its developer. And BWBasic is open source but there is no > >> documentation, and apparently no forums. > >> > > There is another basic in the catalog: gambas (versions 1 and 2) and > > it's opensource and totally alive and kicking ;-) > > http://gambas.sourceforge.net > > Thank you for that information. > My confusion is because Gambas does not show up if I search in dselect or > aptitude on "basic". You might want to fix that. When I searched for > basic, I only found the two I mentioned. You're right, I will fix it in the next upload. > > So far, it also appears that Gambas requires X to run. I have loaded it > and will look at it abit more but.. While I am sure that its a great > program and fills a great need, it wont work for what I want. I use linux > for servers, and I avoid GUI on servers. > Not, I run some gambas applications in servers without X. You need X if you use qt or gtk components, but you can do console applications without any problem. In fact there are some very interesting components as net.curl, pcre, db.mysql, etc. that I use everyday in some servers without using X. Maybe your impression is due to the fact of that usually the gambas-ide is identified with the gambas project, but you can write gambas applications with vi. Anyway I would use the excellent gambas-ide even to write cgi or console applications as it will help you to write them all the time. > Using Basic is of great use to me in doing CGI and system scripts. BLASSIC > (Classic Basic) appears to be more of what I need. It runs basic code > which was written for many basic variations, in the classic text-mode. > Even for that you have a web component that encapsules much of the cgi protocol and doesn't need X to be used too: http://www.gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.web You can take a look at all the currently available components at http://www.gambasdoc.org/help/comp . And you can also write pure basic applications without using any component, in that case you only will need the gambas2-runtime package to execute them. By the way, the www.gambasdoc.org site is itself written in gambas too ;-) Hope this helps. Regards. José L.
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