World: r3wp

wait, installing to c:\program files means that no rebol subdir is 
being created.

actually i wouldn't be surprised if it had deleted your whole program 
files dir.

Further investigation shows that the files that have gone missing 
from his system are all in the c:\Documents and Settings\<User Account>\Application 
Data\Microsoft\   Internet Explorer and MSN Messenger folders... 
the files impacted seem to be all of the customizations he has made 
to these two apps.

It handled only the removal of the Rebol specific files from the 
Program Files folder as expected.

I think the uninstaller simply removes the registry settings for 
rebol as the rebol.exe was still in the program files folder after 
the uninstall.

Initial investigation shows that only the two directories above were 
affected as other folders in the same path have all of their subdirectories 
intact.

Posting 3 up starting "It handled..." should read "The uninstall 
seemed to handle..."

i don't think rebol touches anything inside appdata\microsoft, probably 
something strange has happened.

Did any of Gregg's installer code get migrated into the new RT installer?

not that I know of.

what was the data-path set to while installing?

Another victim... <path as above>\UnleashIT,   all profiles removed.

well, uninstall does no more than this:

it's mentioned in my first post...
C:\Program Files instead of C:\Program Files\Rebol\View

do-uninstall: does [
	attempt [delete data-path/bypass-install]
	if get-face ckd [

  if confirm reform ["Please confirm that you want to delete all files 
  in" to-local-file data-path][
			attempt [delete-dir data-path]
		]
	]
	found? all [
		attempt [unlink-rebol form system/product true]
		attempt [unassociate-file true]
		attempt [unregister "REBOL" form system/product true]
	]
]

not install dir, data dir

when he went to change from C:\ to d:\ and hit the "Change" button 
on the installer, we didn't catch that it had removed the "Rebol\View" 
portion and defaulted to the drive he launched the installer from.

so note that 1) it does not delete anything without asking confirmation 
and 2) only deletes the data dir which should be appdata\view\

So Rebol removes everything in installed folder?

no, it doesn't; it removes everything in the data dir but only if 
you confirm the deletion.

no, it only seemed to delete registry settings and the appdata/view 
folder.  Nothing from his program files folder was erased, which 
is a good thing for him.

So one thing I would like to suggest is that the "Change" button 
in the installer defaults to the folder as indicated in the default 
path provided when you start the installer.  I think this is the 
root of the problem as the text looked like it was fully provided 
but the path field was short and we didn't confirm the full path. 
 In my opinion it should have included \Rebol\View, but believe it 
did not.

Any news of RIF?

Any news of BCD datatype?

no news currently.

Gabriele - but maybe it would be worth to publish some blog article, 
about the state of Rebol 3. I know that every single project is delayed, 
but it starts to look strange once again - alpha in may, beta in 
June. It is end of June, according to another blog Carl is supposed 
to spend several weeks in France at that time, and no mention of 
when aproximately alpha will be out?

and other thing - blog very often raises some questions, dunno if 
those are mainly rhetorical questions or so, but decision for particular 
areas are never announced.

What happened to SDK 2.6.3? It was announced on March, 2 by Carl. 
We were supposed to submit latest bugs to fix. So I wonder, if there 
are no bugs since 2.6.2, that 2.6.3 was not released? :-)

Truned out all to be features.

:-)

i guess it's just that Carl hasn't had the time. I did fix some mezz 
bugs for that release...

Will be there any new Rebol/Base build? The last one is from year 
2004:(

i think there's one in the latest sdk archive.