World: r3wp

We don't do timezone database updates yet, but we've been discussing 
it

my rebelBB.cgi script has stopped working

because the imap server thinks the time is wrong and keeps shutting 
down :(

Yet another REBOL bulletin board? :-)

Yep .. French one

Of course I'm planning my own :-)

uses an IMAP server to store the messages

Integrating with legacy stuff always brings headaches

perhaps I should just use UTC and forget about it

I can already see why I wouldn't want to use that one

I think it's just a very finicky imap server .. dovecut .. that I 
picked

dovecot

Years ago I chose Cyrus. Not sure if that's still the best

How about a vmware image ??

My project leader is working on it, but we're going to release images 
a few days later

Cool ..

I can wait for that.

Include Rebol and Cheyenne :)

Core is included. I've never tried Cheyenne yet. Is it hard to set 
up?

no, runs out of the box

I presume that you don't have Apache?

Yes, an Apache package is linked from the README

How big is Cheyenne? Does it require Apache?

few hundred kbs

and no, doesn't need Apache

Might inspire doc to finish the web console if you release it as 
the default web server :)

OK. It's not really something that qualifies for our criteria to 
ship in the base system. We wouldn't include Apache, but most of 
the REBOL stuff is so tiny that we might as well throw it in :-)

I use Cheyenne for my web portal .. works fine.

I'll put it on my list to look into. I think it would qualify as 
an operating system grade extension

Normally we ship those in middleware collections of packages, but 
that's a size consideration

Uniserve and Cheyenne are 500kb zipped

Not tiny, but smaller than many fonts :-)

It has reached OSNews:

http://osnews.com/story.php/18733/First-Syllable-Server-Development-Release

We created a bunch of virtual machine images, so you can try Syllable 
Server easily in an emulator without installing it:

http://osnews.com/story.php/18774/Syllable-Server-Emulator-Images

Cool.

Thanks. Did you try it?

I did and VMPlayer would not start it ?

Not yet, I'm buried.

Alan, what exactly happened? Did you try the VMware option from the 
start menu?

We made the image with VMware Workstation and are running it in VMPlayer

only one peer in the swarm .. might as well do an http download from 
your S3 storage!

That was a short experiment.   I tried to open up the file in Ubuntu, 
and it said it was an unrecognized file type ( .7z ).

Yeah, but if we get published somewhere, the swarm will nicely reduce 
our costs, such as on our initial release

The README has full instructions on unpacking and everything else. 
You do have to read it, of course

Wouldn't it be simpler to just provide the file in a format that 
most systems understand without having download another piece of 
software just for this purpose .. which then ruins the advantage 
of using an obscure compression system because you save a few bytes?

me .. just a user

Well, you questioned our downloading infrastructure. 7-Zip compression 
is a part of that. Without it, our system packages are about 50% 
bigger. When we get hit by a large publication, that will make a 
serious difference in our costs

And it's not obscure. It's based on LZMA compression, and 7-Zip is 
an incredibly popular implementation: