World: r3wp

Thanks, Petr, that should work

ah, I get it now

but it does test correctly for existing directories. it's a little 
ambiguous, but testing also for EXISTS? could help

You sure??

>> dir? %asdfsdf/
== false

it seems it will do this:

- it tests FALSE for an existing file
- it tests FALSE for an existing file and adding a /

- it tests TRUE for a non-existing dir with an ending / <-- bogus?
- it tests TRUE for an existing dir with an ending /
- it tests TRUE for an existing dir without an ending /

crap ... had wrong version of rebol up

the bogus one would be eliminated with an EXISTS?. still it's a simpler 
way to test for non-existing dirs, say in preferences files for paths 
and some basic syntax checking.

but you also have to check the ending / if you want to form paths

in R2, we have to do the "#"/" = last file" check

annoying ...

so, I think there should be a function for that, but having it in 
DIR? may be ambiguous.

I'm adding a ticket, just to be sure.

So, we need a function that both checks that file exists, and it's 
a directory?

so... there should not be a need to port the R2 one, just ask like 
this:

all [
	exists? file
	dir? file
]

That shouldn't hurt the R2 version.

Even info?/type is incompatible. ´directory for R2 and ´dir for R3

probably related to ports being different in R3. I'll make a ticket.

The exists? check is insufficient, because it will return true if 
a regular file exists but the value is written in dir form with a 
trailing /

exists? %/c/msdos.sys
== true

exists? %/c/msdos.sys/
== false

or is it R2? checking...

ah, yes. there is an issue in R2.

The issue is in R3

The above code was pasted from R3.

exists? %dark

== true

exists? %dark/

== true

does %dark exist? I don't get that result.

It´s a regular file

Are you on Windows?

I've tried without a root dir now and I get the same result as I 
pasted above.

yes, XP

This is WINE

I could test in crossover if I had the diskspace...

I will investigate whether we want WINE related bugs in Curecode.

There´s no other way to run on Linux

Wine is beta software still .... and AFAIK, the decimal bug is still 
present wrt R2.

True, but Wine is not a very stable platform. It might be a Wine 
problem.

Though the Wine team has asked us to see if it is still present.

Wine is past 1.0 since a year or so

But that´s beside the point. The only offered way to run on non-Windows 
is on WINE

The root of all evil is pointing fingers at other IT suppliers

a little over dramatic ...

especially when wine has been known to be buggy.

Kaj, there have been Wine related bugs with early R3 alphas before, 
which were then fixed. It's prudent to be cautious.

You might as well not fix any bugs at all becuase Windows is not 
a very stable platform

Kaj, isn't the point of Wine to make it behave like Windows?

Note that I´m not saying there should be no bugs; I´m saying bugs 
should be fixed

Isn´t the point of REBOL to be usable?

yes, when the underlying platform is stable. otherwise you can't 
work with that platform.