World: r3wp

R3 2.100.81 was the first release of the module revamp, so backporting 
the module system is the next step for R2/Forward. At least as much 
as we can fake, of course. RR2/Forward is still missing an implementation 
of UNBIND though, and it looks like the module system might need 
it. Wish me luck, or chip in!

So move the discussion here.

Delete the old group.

a pretty print function and now I have to deal with strings when 
operating on the data instead of numbers

which is crazy

ah, so you think that the sorting won't work?

So, is R3 using a different maths library from R2 ?

Yes, sort of. Integers and money were changed, percent added.

well, how about fixing decimals too

Decimals use IEEE 754 doubles.

The point would be, were tables done correctly in RebGUI, that the 
pretty print formatting would come at cell rendering time rather 
than as input to the table. In the work I've been doing, Cyphre changed 
table for me so that it would allow sorting on strings that contain 
numbers.

?? what table?

There's no table in VID

I'm talking about RebGUI, not VID.

Henrik .. you surprise me .. you've always said you don't use rebgui 
!

Anyway, R2 and R3 display decimals to a different level of precision 
before sci notation kicks in ....

Those are display functions - math is unaffected by display.

The app I'm building now requires RebGUI and so I get to know it 
a little bit.

so either way, 2.7.8 should fix it

BrianH, interesting, so maybe it can be solved at a lower level? 
Or maybe it shouldn't.

There's only 6 days left for the 2.7.8 release

BrianH, where did this month-based time table come from? Don't take 
it personally, but I wouldn't trust it, if you don't have enough 
control over it. :-)

I am in the "make a formatting function" camp, but it doesn't matter 
for math or numeric sorting.

I'm in the "make it sensible" camp

The month-based timetable was announced by Carl with the initial 
announcement of the coming of 2.7.7.

And this is now the "second coming"

I'm in the "make it flexible" camp. BrianH, does the new FORM-DECIMAL 
look useful for inclusion in 2.7.8? We may need to add different 
separator notation.

I'm still in the "make is sane" camp

Month-based time table: I don't believe it for a second. :-) 2.7.8 
sounds 6 months away to me.

Henrik ... Carl said it so it must be happening...

However, he hasn't worked on R2 publicly yet this year, so I don't 
know. We have enough changes accumulated so far to make a release 
worth doing, even if priorities have shifted relative to the 2.7.8 
release plans.

The installer needs to remove prior Rebo2 registry changes

the prot-http changes I submitted ...

Right now the installer is using those changes - we haven't fixed 
the registry usage of the installer yet.

Since it seems no one is going to review the prot-http changes .. 
I think we should just include them

and let the wider community report any issues

Graham, that is presumptuous. I was going to review them this week. 
I just wasn't working on R2 for the first cople weeks this month.

Brian, you said that Gabriele or Nenad should review them ... and 
that's what I was referring to ...

Well, when noone does something that needs doing, I generally do 
it.

Pity we can't include Romano's async protocol too .. and then we 
could start moving some of the R3 schemes back to R2

We can adapt the async tricks from Uniserve if we want to backport 
R3 schemes. R3's scheme model isn't set yet though (it's port model 
is), which is why I haven't backported the scheme-making dialect 
if possible.

As for the installer, I'm waiting for Carl to come out of his cave 
and submit his installer mezzanine fixes from 2.7.7 so we can get 
started on fixing it.

And please get rid of the auto-public-directory-creation.

The sandboxing functions (*-THRU) require it. The public directory 
should only be created in the View user directory, %appdata%\REBOL 
by default.

shouldn't it only be created when *-thru is used?

*-thru is used at startup.

>> help "thru"
Found these words:
   do-thru         function! Do a net file from the disk cache.

   exists-thru?    function! Checks if a file is in the disk cache. 
   Returns: no...

   launch-thru     function! Launch a net file from the disk cache.
   load-thru       function! Load a net file from the disk cache.

   path-thru       function! Return a path relative to the disk cache.

   read-thru       function! Read a net file from thru the disk cache. 
   Returns ...

Doesn't bode well for read only media

Or an os where you don't have write permissions

You can include settings on read-only media, even start with -i if 
necessary. It's made to be adjustable.