World: r4wp

OK, I can understand that. I have a hard time understanding such 
things from an efficiency standpoint. I'm always forced to be as 
efficient as I can, because I am doing so many projects

The way one needs GitHub for your script is the same way one needs 
Fossil for my work that people complain about. They're both web viewers 
for source control repositories that you can also use to give download 
links to people, although that's not their primary design

The fundamental problem here is that my decisions are always driven 
by efficiency, while the code I open source for free is downloaded 
by people who want to play with it. I can't afford to loose any time 
to playing, so I must insist that people don't waste my time. I don't 
think that should be a big requirement for all the work I give away 
for free

Difference between Github's web UI and Fossil's web UI is that Github 
can generate stable download URLs for the "latest" version. That's 
a huge difference even from an efficiency standpoint.

How so? Fossil supplies the same download URLs

Where?

Last time we looked at that, you said Fossil can't do that.

I link to them all the time

I never said that, because it isn't so

Then what's a stable link for the latest version of your download.r?

Which I can wget right away.

I always link to this article with a zip package of all my binaries:

http://web.syllable.org/news/2012-11-18-20-47-Red-high-level-programming-language-first-alpha.html

download.r is:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/doc/trunk/download.r

Cool, then post that link in the future. First time it was posted 
here.

No need to interact with the Fossil web UI with that link.

I publish such links often when a single file is requested

Be sure to use them in the future, and the Fossil UI can be side-stepped 
completely.

Never saw such a link for download.r before (and don't find anything 
using AltME search either, but then ...).

It always could. I've explained many times that Fossil can do everything 
Git can

I published three links in that form in the Announce channel, just 
not of download.r. There are many files, and people are already tired 
of my links

I'd suggest to use those links in the future.

I'll keep it in mind. And I'll remind of this request when people 
complain about my announcements again :-)

In any case, that's the difference between Oldes' link posted before 
and your previous "get download.r from http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip".
Oldes' link doesn't require you to interact with Github's UI, your 
link requires one to interact with Fossil's UI.

Yes, because I want to supply some context and I don't want to spam 
with many links that can also be had on one web page

I am with Kaj on this. Supplying the download link when you update 
some project is not meaningful. If the corresponding link to the 
fossil rep is posted you can take a quick look at the  projectfiles 
and then decide if it is worth the troul]ble for you to update your 
own repo's with the dl script.

Besides that, the Github is not a nice solution imho just chosen 
because of free, and widely used (for exposure purposes) not for 
real ease iyam (if you ask me). So better appreciate the huge work 
Kaj has pulled of to make Red much more widely useable and accept 
his choice.

I would be interested in the demo video from Kaj where he shows how 
he uses fossil in his daily work.

I thought you were the video master? :-)

My use is quite simple. I just check in my work and seldomly need 
a branch. It can be seen in the timelines

The more sophisticated use is on Syllable Server, where I host our 
repositories

Continued in Fossil

Do you think

pick [1 2] yes

is faster or shorter than

either yes [1] [2]

Not sure it is faster, but it takes one less statically allocated 
block.

Aren't those EITHER block compiled away into code?

blocks

I have already thought, since Doc mentioned the small gains Red would 
see from compiler optimizations, that having a Red level optimizer 
might be even better.

I have understood it the other way around

Kaj: depends if it's in a function body or in global context, and 
if the bodies are stored or not.

Gregg: we'll add optimizations at all possible levels.

How does the compilation differ between global context and a function 
body (apart from storing)

?

The generated code for global and local variables is different.

I think I still like the EITHER better, then. It's more natural

I find the PICK version easier and faster to type, but that's just 
personal taste. :-)

I spend a very small part of my time typing

The PICK method seems more like an interpreter optimisation to me