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[#Red] Red language group

DocKimbel
5-Oct-2012
[2553]
I'll try to fix it in boot config tomorrow.
Kaj
5-Oct-2012
[2554]
Most of the bindings don't work on ARM
DocKimbel
6-Oct-2012
[2555x2]
Does that concern only bindings that rely on callbacks?
I will try to fix those bindings issues on ARM once I release v0.3.0 
in a few days.
Arnold
6-Oct-2012
[2557]
Ah Kaj, could you put up a shopping list of thing to buy too when 
you buy a RaspberryPi?
NickA
6-Oct-2012
[2558x3]
RED FUNDING DRIVE, MATCHING FUNDS CHALLENGE:  to help ensure that 
Doc can continue to work on Red without disruption, I'll match funds 
donated to him by November 1, 2012, up to a total of $1000.
Kaj, we need to get you funded too.
Perhaps some discussion about forming a Red foundation would be helpful 
to organize anticipated future actitivies involving community relations 
or other activities that will keep Doc and other core developers 
from focusing on code.
Gregg
6-Oct-2012
[2561]
Yes, the hope is that we can rally support to do the things, like 
web sites, forum moderation, etc. so core developers (i.e. Doc) can 
focus on development.
Kaj
6-Oct-2012
[2562]
Thanks for thinking about me, Nick. I'll refrain from asking for 
donations until Doc is in a good position, then I'll set up a website 
for the bindings to give sponsors a chance to influence my priorities
NickA
6-Oct-2012
[2563]
Thanks for your work and vision Kaj.  It's so appreciated!
Kaj
6-Oct-2012
[2564x4]
Thanks
Arnold, you want me to give a list of things that you would need 
to get a Raspberry going?
Doc, we're just back from Hardware Freedom Day. My talk turned out 
mostly about the Raspberry, because little Red was working. I haven't 
looked into the causes yet. When I've caught up on sleep I'll start 
sending in bug reports
It's quite possible that it's callbacks, but I'm not sure yet
Bas
6-Oct-2012
[2568]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=susYvYoUnUQ
DocKimbel
7-Oct-2012
[2569x3]
Bas: it says "Video is private", so it can't be seen.
Nick: thank you very much for this initiative, it certainly helps 
me keep focused on Red and not have to worry about how to pay my 
bills next month! I hope others will continue to donate, so Nick 
won't need to take all the burden on his shoulders.
Kaj: I noticed Unicode characters rendering does not work on my Linux 
ARM running on QEMU. I'm not sure yet why, I'll investigate that 
in the next days.
Bas
7-Oct-2012
[2572]
The video is now accessible
Arnold
7-Oct-2012
[2573]
 after running around all week buying additional needed equipment.

 that sounds like a shopping list comes in handy when purchasing a 
 RaspberryPi, there are some surprises like needing a VGA monitor 
 where the standard videoout on the Pi is HDMI.
Kaj
7-Oct-2012
[2574x2]
OK, just checking, not sure what you meant
You don't need a VGA monitor, to the contrary, it's hard to get a 
VGA monitor connected, you need an HDMI or DVI monitor
Arnold
7-Oct-2012
[2576]
I read your post the other way around.
Kaj
7-Oct-2012
[2577]
Doc, on BodhiLinux I had full fonts when opening hello.red in an 
editor, including Chinese
Arnold
7-Oct-2012
[2578]
Still surprised that you still needed to buy additional stuff to 
get it working.
Kaj
7-Oct-2012
[2579x2]
Weren't you running bare Debian? That would probably expect you to 
install and configure more yourself
Arnold, the Raspberry is just a motherboard, you'd need a power supply 
and cables at the least :-)
Arnold
7-Oct-2012
[2581]
I know LOL!
DocKimbel
7-Oct-2012
[2582x2]
Kaj: sorry, I wasn't accurate enough, I was referring to hello.red 
output when compiled.
(when run)
Kaj
7-Oct-2012
[2584x2]
The adapter cable I talked about from HDMI to VGA turned out not 
to work. It probably works in the other direction, although I thought 
that wouldn't be possible
Doc, I thought that couldn't be because I can't run any Red code 
on ARM. hello.red crashes hard for me, even taking the terminal program 
down
DocKimbel
7-Oct-2012
[2586]
Does it crash on your RPi?
Kaj
7-Oct-2012
[2587]
Yes
DocKimbel
7-Oct-2012
[2588x2]
(I haven't yet had the chance to test on mine)
Are you running wheezy on it?
Kaj
7-Oct-2012
[2590]
Yes, are you running an ARMEL or an ARMHF architecture?
DocKimbel
7-Oct-2012
[2591x3]
I'm unsure, but as we do support hardware floating points, it should 
be ARMHF I guess.
We support the hardfp ABI. IIRC, Andreas reported that it was working 
on softfp ABI too, but I don't remember exactly, so better wait for 
him to give the right answer.
Anyway, we planned to support more ARM ABI in order to spread on 
more platforms.
Kaj
7-Oct-2012
[2594x3]
Better spread on one platform first :-)
All I can run is empty.reds, Fibonacci, PeterPaint and SQLite
And hello.reds, but not hello.red
DocKimbel
7-Oct-2012
[2597]
I'll look into that as soon as my RPi is set up properly.
Kaj
9-Oct-2012
[2598]
Got Mandelbrot to work
Arnold
9-Oct-2012
[2599x3]
Good work.
I see update of docs typo in red-system-specs.txt saw in this file 
that mat operators including % are supported yet in BNF on line 1076 
it is not mentioned.
Also saw a typo, I read the document further tomorrow and note all 
typos I see.
DocKimbel
9-Oct-2012
[2602]
Maths op missing in BNF rules: good catch. You can add them and submit 
a pull request on the master branch.