[needs-packaging] Create package: Euphoria

[Ansus]

Euphoria is an open-source IDE, RAD development tool and compiler or its own Basic-like language.

It is a self-hosting compiler so a binary install of Euphoria is needed to compile itself.

Binaries for Linux and the source are available here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/31/euphor31.tar

[Ansus (neptunia)]

Addition: The above is the compiler only.

The Euphoria IDE for wxWidgets is available here:
http://wxeuphoria.sourceforge.net/

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[João Pinto (joaopinto)]

There are several problems with this software:
- It provides binaries conflicting with unix core utilities (ed)
- It requires an environment variable set to be used
- It does not provide clear build instructions

[James Paige (bob-getdeb-launchpad)]

> There are several problems with this software:
> - It provides binaries conflicting with unix core utilities (ed)

None of the binaries that euphoria provides really need to be in /usr/bin except exu
The rest, (including "ed") could remaing somewhere out of the path.

> - It requires an environment variable set to be used

I think that instruction may be obsolete or Windows-only
I have a working Euphoria installation with no EUDIR environment variable set.

> - It does not provide clear build instructions

Amen to that!