World: r3wp

R2/Forward is documented in extensive code comments in the source, 
which is available in R3 chat #837. I need to integrate the fixes 
I did during the migration to the mezzanine source.

Brian in R2 is says one of the components is Windows Registry access. 
 What would some of those functions be?

I see 'run is still not available in this version.

The R2/Forward code is licensed (MIT), not donated. From now on, 
the aim of the R2/Forward project has changed. Now its main goal 
is to provide forward compatibility to old R2 versions. I'll be reorganizing 
the code accordingly, and trying to push support as far back as 2.5.0, 
the last version that is supported on the deprecated platforms.

You don't need 'run ....

call works ...

not sure what run was.

The registry functions are unset before runtime in /Core and /View, 
for security reasons. They are available to SDK apps if necessary.

They are documented in the SDK docs.

call "demo.pdf" is the same as run "demo.pdf"

in my case, windows loads acrobat and loads demo.pdf

Are we going to get a free SDK for this version?

Afaict, RUN is basically CALL "start.exe ..."

You wish ...

Got ya.  That is what I thought it was.

I do wish.  :-)

Must be a bug deleting random groups ...

has the sdk encapsulators been updated too?

No, the SDK isn't free. I'm not sure what extras /Command has yet 
- I haven't tried the final release yet, just test releases. Just 
got home.

no ...

the SDKs will be updated next week I think

Is there going to be one for this version?

The SDK will be released later this month.

great

Don't know about other platforms yet - have to talk to Carl about 
that.

Since Reichart hasn't come back and said such and such deleted x 
groups .. I am presuming it is something quite different

Reichart might just not be working today. Who knows?

Whoops, wrong group.

Thank you Carl, Brian for updating the Rebol/View. SSL/TSL has become 
such key module of any serious internet trafic during last decade 
that it's important to be part of the widely available version. I'm 
sure there are plenty of other important Fixes and new features on 
this release, but at this point  with my  limited knowledge of Rebol 
variants (still trying to learn all there is at the 2.7... ) it's 
the thing for me.

we don't have TLS ...

Yeah, the SSL code is a little old. Holger wrote it, I think. We 
have to do a much better job with the R3 SSL.

Any chance of getting TLS instead?

Ah.. As I was saying..  I don't know enough of Rebol..  So it's SSL 
but not TLS? Ah well, as far as I know the sites, SSL is ok.

TLS drops back to SSS 3.0 if required

SSL

For R3, we can get TLS, because the code would be in the open source 
portion. For R2 only the mezzanine changes are open source. This 
means that you'd have to ask Carl about TLS support - and he'll probably 
point you to REBOL Consulting :)

Release announcement: http://www.rebol.com/article/0447.html
Simple change notes: http://www.rebol.com/docs/v2-7.html


I'm trying to post the more detailed release notes in the comments 
of the announcement blog, but I'm getting caught by the blogger limits. 
One more message and I'll be done.

Impressive list of changes.

And incomplete - I'm waiting for it to let me post again,

There, the list is done for this release.

Why is Carl saying he has released 2.7.7 with TLS ??

I use Ladislav's 'closure.  Does the one in 2.7.7 supercede this 
now?

Looks like there is no easily accessible documentation for the R2/forward 
stuff ....

There is easily accessible documentation on the R2/Forward stuff: 
The R3 manual. Any differences from the R3 behavior is documented 
in extensive code comments in the R2/Forward source, which you can 
get in R3 (for now) chat, aka DevBase.

The CLOSURE in 2.7.7 supercedes Ladislav's one, and is derived from 
it. Go Ladislav go!

I don't know much about the TLS support in R2, if any. I guess I'll 
find out when we migrate the old RAMBO tickets to CureCode.

Easy = web accessible.

I suspect the TLS thing is an error .. unless he has been hiding 
it from us all these years!

The R3 manual is web accessible. R2/Forward itself is only useful 
to programmers, and they can and should use DevBase.

I went to the wiki .. and searched on funct ... didn't find the docs