World: r3wp

Then, there's also the dialect part.

no good .. I've lost the password so can't access it anymore.  And 
it won't generate a new password for me.

It was just an experiment anyway.

Well, IMHO, I'd rather spend the time getting DB access generally 
working from R3.

Especially since I'd only need to write 10% of it.  (I've been told 
I should delegate.)

Well, my app uses odbc so without it, it won't run.

The gui is not important

And it uses SSL :(

If I had to guess, I'd say it's a version issue.

There are not any registry calls in the ODBC port.  But, it's always 
been a little-bit version sensitive.

The connection flags are likely specifying 32bit data modes, so the 
ODBC server is rejecting it.

Ok, assuming that is the case, what about reading the registry when 
it is required?s

I run Windows 7 x64, so can test there.

Graham, is it possible that Firebird 64bit doesn't come with 32bit 
connection libraries? Unless there is some IPC or TCP layer between 
the client libs and the server, possible if the client and server 
are on the same system, then it is possible that the x64 version 
may not be connectable from 32bit apps.

I haven't tried in that situation, but it might be possible that 
32bit DSNs aren't the same as 64bit DSNs. Let me check.

I don't have any 64bit databases here, so I can't check. Have you 
tried connecting with MS Access?

Don't have Access.  I'm running this on a Windows 2008 virtual server 
on Ec2.

There is a 32bit library I think in a Firebird wow64 directory, and 
using this and a dsnless connection, I can connect to the database.

I'm not too concerned about this in view of this work round, but 
I would like a way rebol to access the 64 bit registry if it's just 
a flag setting ...

Just have to rewrite my installer to switch to creating a dsnless 
connection if it detects running on 64 bit windows

Maybe reboltutorial guy solved our R2 installer problem faster then 
us :-) http://reboltutorial.com/blog/how-to-create-your-own-setup-package/

Is it in a Firebird wow64 directory, or the Windows wow64 directory? 
It seems to me like the 32bit ODBC drivers aren't installed, registered 
with ODBC. Check the ODBC configurator, look at the drivers list 
and see if the 32bit drivers are listed there.

Firebird wow64 directory

And is it listed in the ODBC drivers list?

Install the 32bit drivers here: http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=odbc

http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/odbc/Firebird_ODBC_2.0.0.148_win32.exe

Even on 64bit Windows, 32bit programs need 32bit ODBC drivers.

I have XP x64 here if someone wants me to test something.

I think you need the SDK if you want to test reading the registry.

Free OpenBSD sdk http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r

Had to find an old version here with the *-reg funcs, which ended 
up being 2.5.6. Reading works fine. Didn't try writing. Of course 
XP x64 is basically Server 2003, which may behave very differently 
than Vista or 7, security wise.

Just wondering how much effort it would be for Carl to release 2.7.8 
on previously supported platforms ...

Given that he has released the openbsd version and who uses openbsd 
here??

It would depend on the platform. For instance, the WinCE version 
was for a hardware platform that noone uses anymore.

I was thinking OpenSolaris x86

ZFS seems to be a useful thing to have .. given the number of times 
I need to recover things!

I may be the only person in the REBOL community that still has the 
target hardware for the WinCE ARM build :(

I"m looking for an open source OS platform that doesn't have library 
hell ...

OpenSolaris seems to be suppported by Oracle and a large community

It's a little soon to see if it will be supported by Oracle, but 
it's a cool platform.

latest view is 2.5.x or something like that

I would guess 2.5.6, the last version before the 2.6 series. Other 
platforms were dropped after 2.5.0 (like WinCE).

I can't see why they  wouldn't ...as that means they can offer pretty 
much the whole stack ....  OpenSolaris, Mysql, Apache, PHP

Still, suggest it. It's more likely for platforms that can be put 
in a VM for testing, for free (no cost).

VirtualBox of course supports OpenSolaris .. I installed it last 
night

since Oracle also owns VirtualBox

I found that OpenSolaris is awfully slow even when compared to slow 
Linux distributions like Ubuntu but that may be just my computer 
since OpenSolaris doesn't support that much hardware. Booting it 
took 10 minutes already but the whole system felt very sluggish. 
Some of the features it has are really nice though. The ZFS video 
where some guy used a big hammer to destroy running harddrives to 
show off ZFS handling it without any problems was cool :) What I 
would like to see Rebol run on is Haiku, especially since you develop 
native apps for it with C++ which usually is quite horrible although 
I have to say that the BeOS api makes C++ programming quite a bit 
less horrible.

Haiku support is likely to happen with R3, but we'll have to see 
with R2. Was there a previous BeOS port of R2?

If so we'd need a new minor platform number for Haiku with the new 
GCC compiler.

Yeah there is a Rebol/Core 2.5.0.5.2 and a Rebol/View 1.2.1.5.2 for 
BeOS R5. I tried the one with View on the latest nightly build of 
Haiku yesterday, didn't work though, some error message about the 
Media Server Addon IIRC. Could be because I used the GCC4 hybrid 
iso, don't know how far they are with that stuff yet, I haven't followed 
the mailing list for a few months. A R3 port in a few years would 
be good enough for me, Haiku is still in alpha so it's probably a 
good idea to wait a bit more. From what I heard they now have a few 
people working on it full time (paid) thanks to a lot of donations, 
so there is a lot of stuff going on with the Haiku code base right 
now :)

We'll keep you in mind as being a possible Haiku tester :)