10-31-2022, 07:36 PM
(10-31-2022, 06:50 PM)bearheathen Wrote: :Users could have choice? Anybody could fork the source code if he/she is knowledgeable and persistent enough? One folder sounds like a dictatorship. I'm on the side of Phoenix Edition but I'm sort of glad there is "competition" in which we could compliment each other. As for developers not getting along, that's everywhere.
In the end, this is what my hard drive looks like.
This. Is. Wrong.
I should have ONE folder.
Just use one or the other, or both. If you use both, you could help both sides squash the annoying bugs, the inconsistencies with operation from an executable program created by the programming system.
You could also be one of those users having 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions of QB64PE and/or the "official" QB64. I don't know what that is. Having two folders in your case is even more of a blessing, except it wastes disk space with their own kits of MinGW.
This is like choosing Windows, or choosing Linux. Only because Linux offers multiple desktop environments and there are at least 50 different intepretations of it, some people get put off and accept a single choice of payware that, admittedly, has been quite good despite its many flaws and the creator's attempts to make its users worship it. So I'm glad QB64PE (and the other programming system) could work on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It will never be perfect. Even if the programmers of one side or another got along, it would never be perfect, but we (the combined community, at least both forums) could try to be.