World: r3wp

general host-kit starter information:  http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/concepts/host-kit.html


dowload link for the latest public host-kit:  http://www.rebol.com/r3/downloads/r3-host-kit-a107.zip


this includes both MS and linux distros, note that the linux one 
doesn't have the required files for enabling the graphics on linux 
(they have yet to be attempted by anyone AFAIK).

back

Thanks for the link Maxim! I'll take a look into this more once I 
get to my real job... lol

hehe

your email lists you on a domain .ca... are you in canada? and if 
so where?  (if you don't mind)

I'm in the wild west Alberta.

cool, in Montreal myself

Another Canuck :-)

Seems smilies don't do much in AltMe.. (used to IRC)

Well, they smile :-)

So, what happened to the old messages in this group?

Several groups seem to have lost their content

On the day Carl stated working on backend servers...

The above host kit link doesn't do much good: it's Windows-configured, 
without interpreter libraries and makefiles for Amiga or Linux

remember that I talked about getting to grips with windows version 
first... which is the only one with graphics done.

;-)

OK, but you also said there was a Linux distro in there

Linux x86: http://www.rebol.com/r3/downloads/r3-core-a107-42.gz

Ah, cool

Place where I found that link: http://www.rebol.com/r3/changes.html

Thanks!

That's Core, though, not the host kit

I already had that through upgrade

Whoops.

So back to jail card

Wrong link: http://www.rebol.com/r3/downloads/r3-host-kit-a107-42.tar.gz

Same page though.

Holding my breath

The download locations seem to be protected by security through obscurity

Indeed.. I tried to find them myself but didn't think to look in 
changes.html

They are on the main changes page on REBOL.com, linked off their 
main page. This is not at all obscure.

Especially for a highly experimental release.

I claim ignorance :)

I claim to never have seen two REBOL filenames that were the same 
- and I'm not talking about version numbers

lol

With every release I have to turn my formal build recipes upside 
down

I was pleasantly (but extremely) surprised that the a107 release 
was stable enough to build a new core with. The a1xx series has been 
really experimental, almost as unstable as other people's alpha software.

R3 host-kits are still very alpha.

Other people's betas are released, like, say a year after their alphas 
- but let's not dwell on that

And I mean formal build recipes for R2 as well

The host-kit has probably changed more architecturally in 3 alpha 
versions than the whole python life cycle.

Is the r3 core lib provided by RT? e.g. r3lib.dll

yes

And less and less of R3 is in it with each release. We are externalizing 
a lot of it into the host portion, where you can see and modify the 
source.

Is there a unit test framework for R3 (e.g. I use CppUnit for C++)?

Ssolie, no.

It is so easy to make unit test frameworks in REBOL that there are 
several. But no official one yet.

well yes there is... RUnit... but its very easy to make your own 
in two pages or rebol.

I'm new to rebol obviously :)

Nevertheless, currently there's no official, published test suite 
for R3.