World: r3wp

Yes, but at Red level.

At Red/System level, we might have something like READ-PORT, WRITE-PORT.

With the latest series of Red versions, the 0MQ binding didn't work 
anymore due to crashing on a certain imported function call. This 
is now fixed, probably as a side effect of the last few fixes

Shouldn't newline be a byte/char, as in REBOL? It's a string now

It's for consistency when passed to PRIN/PRINT and avoid requiring 
PRIN-INT.

I would keep PRIN. And instead of PRIN-INT I would like to see FORM.

The problem with FORM is that it implies a new buffer allocation 
that you need to free at some point.

Yes, the C library print functions do that automatically

For what it's worth, I just implemented a print-newline because that's 
easier and more efficient than PRIN NEWLINE

The 0MQ binding now works on Linux for the first time. I'm quite 
happy with that :-)

Cool! :-)

I've converted the library functions to pass opaque binary messages 
(byte-ptr!) now, as do the R3 and R2 bindings

The examples are now responsible for converting from and to strings 
(so the Red examples are not compatible with the current R3 and R2 
examples)

I am installing FreeBSD8.2 on Vmware to test Red...Wow, it is like 
trying to install Linux in 1996...I am really surprized, I wasn't 
expecting an Ubuntu-like installer, but at least a decent package 
manager...Here's my attempt at installing git:

# pkg_add -r git
Fetching ...
...
# git
git: Command not found.

Great!

Btw, network configuration is not done by default, you need to activate 
it manually....seriously, in 2011?

FreeBSD's main principle is to never update the installer ;-)

You'd probably be much better off with PC-BSD or Desktop-BSD

http://www.pcbsd.org

Thanks, didn't know about those BSD variants.

I managed to get git running. Let see if I can get Red sources.

Hmm, I guess there is no chance to make REBOL/View run on FreeBSD 
without X...

Nope. I guess you have a console system now?

Yes.

Installing X and everything on top manually is a cherished exercise 
on the way to enlightenment :-)

I did such installation several times, manually configuring everything, 
last time was in 1997. An OS requiring me to do that in 2011 is a 
joke.

I remember leaving Red Hat and Gentoo installations at the console 
level in hopes of sparing my hair...

You do realise you've downloaded a server OS? The real joke is REBOL/Core

Sure, we used to have FreeBSD serveurs at Softinnov in the beginning 
(2002), then we switched to Debian and latter Ubuntu.

It's still a favourite bragging exercise in very popular Linux distributions

I should blame myself first to not have paid more attention in the 
beginning to avoid making Red/System's compiler dependent on REBOL/View 
features.

Yeah, isn't struct avoidable?

Sure it is, it just requires to code custom serialization routines 
instead.

I'd be very pleased with that; nudge, nudge :-)

Would make Red run on Syllable Server

Also, people installing View on Linux to try Red might encounter 
issues related to View installation.

I'm using it on the graphical version now, that we can't release 
because the integration with BogoLinux X packages is too brittle

Yep

I might have already lost a few potential users just because of that.

They told you?

One told me that IIRC, he didn't want to accept the licensing terms 
that the View installer was asking him to accept.

I can't sell web sites because my site builder is running in REBOL, 
which people can't get installed

Yeah, we've had one paranoid tell us he wouldn't install AltME because 
it's a binary :-/

:-)

He must be running FreeBSD ;-)

No, he once built his own security optimised Debian distro

Did I meet him at ReBorCon2011?

You sat across the table from him :-)

In the restaurant

I guessed so. ;-)

We also found him in the 0MQ contributors list :-)