World: r3wp

I see no new curecode tickets for the last 3 days

posted 4 and 5 days ago. a couple more earlier in the month.

While I agree that the website overhaul has a very bad timing, I 
also think that the new website is an incredible improvement

We finally have an official-lookin collection of changelogs (http://www.rebol.com/docs/changes.html)

There is an unheard of (for RT) transparence of work done on the 
website (http://www.rebol.com/recent.html). A cynic might think, 
though, that it can surely be only a matter of time until that page 
is locked down and protected and whatnot.

A lot of us never visit the website ...

The old one was basically completely useless

And that's why we never visited ...

Still, I don't think that all this shiny website freshness does justify 
the total lack of R3-related activity and/or communication. Just 
as one could sense at least a tiny bit of R3 momentum ...

I think this belongs more to rebol3 than I'm new , even though I 
am new :-)
foo: copy "ABCD"
insert foo "ä"
? foo
to-binary foo

Returns ..  Utf-8 encoded string. 
== #{C3A441424344}

I heard someone say that R3 was going to reintroduce the R2 console 
- is that true?  I hate pasting code into the current console - it 
is never formatted correctly for it.

i would like to use again rebol plugin with R3 !!!!!. because i don't 
like javaFx ;-)

but we need first a good R3 GUI

a R3 ODBC scheme and others (mysql etc...)

a Cheyenne with R3 would be great too

it would be fun to counter JEE6 and make it easier & simpler with 
an example of pestore or something else ;-)

it would be a good showcase for the possibilities of R3

all you need is "R3" tatatata... ;-p)

How would you like to contribute?

Paul, the R2 console is Windows only, so Carl doesn't want to re-use 
that console, but it could probably be used as a temporary measure 
(that would be another diversion). Use something like this for now:

xyz: read clipboard://

Paul, correct, that's what he said

Priorities page now shows all secondary pages processed.

http://www.rebol.com/recent.html

The changes page should list all changes on one page. Otherwise you 
have to click yourself to death.

for all the worried, Carl twitted "Wrapping up website changes. Was 
a huge, intense project, but had to be done. The site is much more 
manageable as a result."

R3 party!! :)

graham, yes i would like to contribute to do a pestore like in R3

but i am not a guru in Rebol. and for me it is important to try to 
do this application to learn & to show the best practicies in R3, 
with the help of some guru ;-)

show why it is important to do something like this and not like that 
(performance, re-use of code,maintenance of code, etc...)

Henrik are you saying that Carl will not bring back the R2 console? 
 - trying to sort out yours and Grahams responses.

Paul, what I'm saying is that the R2 console is very Windows dependent. 
It doesn't exist on any other platform. This situation must change. 
Meanwhile the functionality would also likely improve, so we could 
get a graphical console.

And I'm saying that Carl agreed to bring back the R2 console for 
the Windows version of R3

Until someone finds a better console.

Henrik and Graham, thanks for the update.

I noticed, in Carl's prepared implementation plan, that there is 
item stating: Boot directly into R3 (min OS)

sorry, wrong group ...

Datatype differences between R2 and R3:

Removed
	any-block!
	any-function!
	any-string!
	any-type!
	any-word!
	context!
	hash!
	list!
	number!
	routine!
	series!
	symbol!

Added
	closure!
	command!
	frame!
	get-path!
	gob!
	handle!
	map!
	module!
	percent!
	rebcode!
	task!
	typeset!
	utype!
	vector!

rebcode! dtype is added into R3? I am not sure it will be used, will 
it? Also - what is frame! supposed to be about?

>> ? frame!
frame! is a datatype
It is defined as an internal context frame
It is of the general type internal

No values defined for frame!

Ashley, a revision to your post:
Changed to typesets, not removed:
	any-block!
	any-function!
	any-string!
	any-type!
	any-word!
	number!
	series!


Non-functional legacy, not newly added, likely to be removed or replaced 
by user-defined types:
	rebcode!
	struct!

Actually, rebcode! is likely to be replaced by JIT-generated command! 
functions, not user-defined types.

Oh, add library! to the non-functional list.

and routine! will be probably removed too,no?

frame! is used in extensions as well. There It's a linked/cascaded 
data-structure to get access to call parameters and construct return 
values like block!

Pekr, routine! was already removed, replaced with command!. The library!, 
rebcode!, and struct! types are just placeholders that haven't been 
removed or replaced yet. Don't count on them being there in the future.

How would I implement a ssl:// port scheme in the hostkit, that behaves 
just as tcp:// does, but allowing me to hook the native actors (open, 
mainly)

Using DOS (tested with VISTA and XP) I can launch my editor with:
>>start textpad

But how can I do that with the Rebol CALL function. It's doesn"t 
seems to work...

Start is a cmd.exe builtin command on Win2k+ (not Win9x). Try call 
"cmd.exe start textpad" or calling Textpad directly.

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