World: r3wp

Got cURL to read a website and print it:

curl-begin curl-global-all
session: curl-new-session
curl-set session curl-set-upload?  as variant! no
curl-set session curl-set-url  as variant! "http://rebol.com"
curl-do session
curl-end-session session
curl-end

Not as concise as READ "http://rebol.com"but we'll get there

Added a higher level interface that reduces that to

curl-begin
session: curl-new-session
curl-read session
curl-do session "http://rebol.com"
curl-end-session session
curl-end

Next: wxWidgets :)

They say it's a man year work to port it

In any case, I'm not going to do it

But I can upload a file to FTP now

That's direct from disk, so large files can be uploaded without using 
much memory

Can you do multiple uploads concurrently?

No, I can upload one file from disk exclusively. The binding is two 
days old

For multiple concurrent uploads before next week, use my R3 binding

Of course, if you use the 0MQ binding in combination with the cURL 
binding, you can do multiple concurrent uploads from disk only

I've implemented a callback framework and used that to implement 
sending a data block from memory, instead of direct from a file

So callbacks are working fine? No more issues?

A callback used internally by cURL is fine, yes, on Linux. We'll 
see what a progress callback does with trying to print floats

Are you using a version of Red/System that includes my deeper fix 
for callbacks from 2011-06-30 (commit log: Merge branch 'callbacks-cconv')?

If it was committed before the last few hours, I have it

Is that not in the trunk branch? Then I don't have it

I have merged it in main branch 2 days ago.

Two days seems like a long time ago. :-) If that was the final fix 
for 0MQ on Linux, then I already had it

But that was earlier, wasn't it? Then I have only tested the latest 
callbacks with cURL

Right, it was the final fix for callbacks (for the 0MQ issue).

Kaj: we have decided to replace the "struct" and "pointer" by "declare". 
Please read this post: http://groups.google.com/group/red-lang/browse_thread/thread/9c407676e2335919?hl=en

I will be waiting for you to upgrade your bindings before making 
the announcement (hope we can do it tomorrow). I have some things 
to add in the specification and red-lang.org site to dust off in 
the meantime (well, tomorrow would be nice ;-)).

I just checked that all the bindings still work with the current 
Red, so the syntax should be the only thing left to change

Ok, if I merge it now with the main branch, can you make the changes 
shortly after?

Definitely

I will wait until tomorrow to make the announcement anyway.

Ok, doing the merge...

Merged.

Going to bed now, will update the web site tomorrow and post an announcement 
on the blog.

(tomorrow => later today)

Ehm, my bindings still work :-)

I only had to make a few changes to the example scripts

This either exposes my preparations for thread safe code, or the 
fact that I haven't written any substantial applications yet :-)

I've extended the read function in the cURL binding to store a file 
being received directly to disk, instead of just printing it

Like sending directly, this has very low memory use

I've confirmed that the Empty and Hello examples still run on Syllable, 
but the cURL binding currently segfaults

I've confirmed that the bindings still work on Windows, at least 
on WINE

The cURL binding seems to work there, too

Thanks for all those tests.

Kaj, do you have gdb on Syllable? If so, please run the curl example 
via gdb and add the output of "backtrace" to the bug report. Thanks!

The last reports were that GDb doesn't work anymore, but I'll try

http://www.red-lang.org/2011/07/redsystem-goes-beta.html

http://development.syllable.org/news/2011-07-05-02-54-Red-System-programming-language-now-beta.html

wow, that is fast development!

Absolutely!

I wish it could go faster. :-)