World: r3wp

Did you read my explanation above why a BSD license wouldn't solve 
all issues going forward?

I am continuing with Orca in Syllable, and I will make improvements 
to Orca where I can and need them. A few other people have expressed 
interest in development as well

No. Would MIT or Boost license be ok ?

GPL/LGPL gives a lot libraries, which cant be used with bsd. No bsd 
or no libraries.

the other way around works. So lgpl has more power.

Orca -->  OpenRebol   :  could there be any legal issues using this 
name ?

then call it Freebol :-)

not sure, how those things go .... it depends, how RT has registered 
their trademark ....

Yarc?

I think there is not a legal problem with "OpenRebol", but I would 
prefer the opinion of someone like Kaj or Reichart.

I'm not a lawyer, as they say, but I think it's a problem under trademark 
law. Whether it would be a problem in practice would depend on RT's 
reaction

Chances are that RT is obliged to take action, because you loose 
the right to a name if you don't defend it

Mmm.. that's an interesting point.

I finished rewriting the Syllable package manager tool in Orca, from 
C++. It's going to be in Syllable 0.6.2. I encountered some Orca 
bugs, but no showstoppers

Have you recorded the bugs ?

I made notes in the program itself

Are you fixing bugs in Orca? :-)

Not yet, I'm just wondering if those are being tracked.

Orca has a trac instance

I'll start doing some things on the project site in the future, but 
I've got a lot of other stuff going on, so it will take some time 
until I get to it

Kaj send me you diffs and I will post the changes.

What diffs? I have to make changes first. :-) When I do, I'll try 
to do it in the Subversion repository, if that's OK with you

I entered Orca onto FreshMeat:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/rebol-orca/

Unfortunately, they didn't put it on the frontpage

You can announce to anyone you see fit. It is an open project without 
direct owners.

Diffs. I mean load the current base from the repository and generata 
a universal patch using the diff cmd on the two copies. Then we can 
check changes one by one.

Or I we can wait.

I'm reading Ubuntu 6.06RC release notes and here's this:

ORCA

Replacing the venerable Gnopernicus is the new Orca, a scriptable 
screenreader for the GNOME desktop. Expect some great things from 
this in the coming months and years. Best of all, it is written in 
Ubuntu's favourite language, Python.

Hm, that's not OUR orca :( BTW, what is its current status?

Lots of things are called Orca. We still need a name change

I'm working with Orca on Syllable. I've identified a number of bugs 
and missing features that I will work on first when I start developing 
Orca itself

I was pleased to find that none of them are showstoppers, though

There were a few unreleased bug fixes for Orca and QUIT/RETURN was 
implemented recently, so I made a new release and put it on FreshMeat:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/rebol-orca/?branch_id=66431&release_id=241129

As Orca is backtracking Rebol why not backtrack the name : lober 
a lob in tennis is to get the ball over the other player : ).  It 
is free on Freshmeat.

I released new source and binary packages for ORCA:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/rebol-orca/

There's a binary for Linux, and this new version is also included 
in Syllable, starting with Syllable Server 0.2 that I just released

Several small fixes and enhancements were made to ORCA over the past 
year, which these packages roll up

I registered ORCA on Ohloh:

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/ORCA

I also registered my Packager tool for Syllable, written in ORCA:

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/Packager

Are there any performance comparison tests between ORCA and REBOL?

I once did a few simple tests and found ORCA to be generally somewhat 
faster than REBOL 2 in basic processing. Both of them were at least 
twice as fast as Ruby

I found the Computer Language Benchmark Game a few weeks ago. Could 
be interesting to make REBOL and ORCA versions of those benchmarks.

Found here: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/

Many years ago that I looked at it, but wasn't REBOL in there with 
a few tests?

I don't see REBOL in there. I've only known about that benchmark 
a few weeks, so REBOL could have been there earlier and later removed 
from some reason.

It used to be.  Most of the math-intensive ones had been done in 
Rebol, but few of the others.  It skewed the language comparison 
to the "slow" side farther than it should have, since the summaries 
didn't take into account whether all the benchmarks were implemented 
or not.  Don't know if it's changed that part now, though..