World: r3wp

Henrik, see http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=reboldiff.r

Is this going to be part of REBOL, as written in blog article?

probably. it was developed for that reason, though we haven't discussed 
it further.

just to keep you informed (this is not an official announcement, 
we will be releasing a roadmap soon), the development of REBOL 3.0 
is starting. no eta or feature list available yet.

cool.

very cool, thank you Gabriele ... that is exactly what was missing. 
IMO ppl can wait, even longer then roadmap check-point state, but 
there should really be some roadmap and some more-often releases 
of alpha stuff - at least I found it vital, as ppl were throwing 
in some ideas, bug fixes, etc.

Why is the View 1.3.2 release for Linux not on the main RT View download 
page? On the test build page it has release status, and I'm getting 
people who are unable to find the Linux download

No draw with fonts makes it beta? No "every-linux"-version? Or overlooked. 
I opt to have it there too.

problem is that it does'n work out of the box in all distros (you 
may need symlinking/installing libs), and there's the freetype issue.

That's not going to change

more feedback of the kind "works great on my distro" would probably 
make it go to the main download page

OK, it's working on Ubuntu Hoary

Working great
 are not words I would use for the Linux version in general

Problems installing Rebol/View latest official release 1.3.2 onto 
Windows 2000 Professional with all the latest Service packs...


Rebol was installed using the default parameters, with the exception 
of the path, it was changed to C:\Program Files instead of C:\Program 
Files\Rebol\View.  It was noticed immediately that the Microsoft 
Quick Launch toolbar disappeared.  After an uninstall  we found that 
the entire IE\Quick Launch folder was erased, but don't know if this 
was done by the Install or Uninstall.  Afterwards, we rebooted the 
PC and found that the desktop image (which was added through IE) 
was also gone.

Anyone else experienced any problems with something like this?

RT may want to try and replicate this install/uninstall inorder to 
confirm whether there is a problem with the installer.

It's not going over very well with my five web-developer colleagues... 
they are saying he has been infected by the Rebolla virus and getting 
a very good chuckle out of it!!!

wait, installing to c:\program files means that no rebol subdir is 
being created.

actually i wouldn't be surprised if it had deleted your whole program 
files dir.

Further investigation shows that the files that have gone missing 
from his system are all in the c:\Documents and Settings\<User Account>\Application 
Data\Microsoft\   Internet Explorer and MSN Messenger folders... 
the files impacted seem to be all of the customizations he has made 
to these two apps.

It handled only the removal of the Rebol specific files from the 
Program Files folder as expected.

I think the uninstaller simply removes the registry settings for 
rebol as the rebol.exe was still in the program files folder after 
the uninstall.

Initial investigation shows that only the two directories above were 
affected as other folders in the same path have all of their subdirectories 
intact.

Posting 3 up starting "It handled..." should read "The uninstall 
seemed to handle..."

i don't think rebol touches anything inside appdata\microsoft, probably 
something strange has happened.

Did any of Gregg's installer code get migrated into the new RT installer?

not that I know of.

what was the data-path set to while installing?

Another victim... <path as above>\UnleashIT,   all profiles removed.

well, uninstall does no more than this:

it's mentioned in my first post...
C:\Program Files instead of C:\Program Files\Rebol\View

do-uninstall: does [
	attempt [delete data-path/bypass-install]
	if get-face ckd [

  if confirm reform ["Please confirm that you want to delete all files 
  in" to-local-file data-path][
			attempt [delete-dir data-path]
		]
	]
	found? all [
		attempt [unlink-rebol form system/product true]
		attempt [unassociate-file true]
		attempt [unregister "REBOL" form system/product true]
	]
]

not install dir, data dir

when he went to change from C:\ to d:\ and hit the "Change" button 
on the installer, we didn't catch that it had removed the "Rebol\View" 
portion and defaulted to the drive he launched the installer from.

so note that 1) it does not delete anything without asking confirmation 
and 2) only deletes the data dir which should be appdata\view\

So Rebol removes everything in installed folder?

no, it doesn't; it removes everything in the data dir but only if 
you confirm the deletion.

no, it only seemed to delete registry settings and the appdata/view 
folder.  Nothing from his program files folder was erased, which 
is a good thing for him.

So one thing I would like to suggest is that the "Change" button 
in the installer defaults to the folder as indicated in the default 
path provided when you start the installer.  I think this is the 
root of the problem as the text looked like it was fully provided 
but the path field was short and we didn't confirm the full path. 
 In my opinion it should have included \Rebol\View, but believe it 
did not.

Any news of RIF?

Any news of BCD datatype?

no news currently.

Gabriele - but maybe it would be worth to publish some blog article, 
about the state of Rebol 3. I know that every single project is delayed, 
but it starts to look strange once again - alpha in may, beta in 
June. It is end of June, according to another blog Carl is supposed 
to spend several weeks in France at that time, and no mention of 
when aproximately alpha will be out?

and other thing - blog very often raises some questions, dunno if 
those are mainly rhetorical questions or so, but decision for particular 
areas are never announced.

What happened to SDK 2.6.3? It was announced on March, 2 by Carl. 
We were supposed to submit latest bugs to fix. So I wonder, if there 
are no bugs since 2.6.2, that 2.6.3 was not released? :-)

Truned out all to be features.

:-)

i guess it's just that Carl hasn't had the time. I did fix some mezz 
bugs for that release...

Will be there any new Rebol/Base build? The last one is from year 
2004:(

i think there's one in the latest sdk archive.