World: r3wp

Henrik, it looks like boron-gl is starting fairly normally, but doesn't 
get into the console somehow

Are you starting it from the Terminal?

no, it is wrapped in an application bundle.

if I try to start it using OPEN, it just returns to console immediately

It's a console program, so you must start it from the shell

It's likely an app bundle because it includes a dynamic library

Well, if it's an application bundle, then it should start the boron-gl 
console, when doubleclicking it. I'm not sure what mechanism is required 
to start it.

It only starts, if I go into the bundle and start the boron-gl executable 
manually.

That would be a good piece of code to contribute to Karl :-)

yes... I'm not sure how to do it, though.

Yes, it's a console program, so must be started "manually"

Programming is exploring

So do you get the Boron console when you start it from a terminal?

That's not what I mean. Application bundles must start their embedded 
executable, when doubleclicked or when using OPEN in the terminal.

I don't know how that works on OS X. I only know that it just works 
on other Unixy systems such as Linux and Syllable

yes, if I go into the OSX bundle.

If extra code is required on OS X, then that can be expected from 
finished commercial apps, but Boron is a volunteer project a year 
old

How do you start R3 on OS X? Isn't there an app setting where you 
must tell OS X to start a command line program in a terminal?

A bundle is simply a directory, which contains specific directories 
and has a specific icon. OSX recognizes such directories as applications. 
Inside are libraries, icons, images and executables of various CPU 
platforms. The user then sees the directory as an application, which, 
when double clicked, automatically runs the correct executable inside 
according to CPU platform. You're not supposed to go inside a bundle 
to start the program.

Anyway, if you can start boron, you can proceed to starting the demo

R2 and R3 are not bundled, so when starting them, is the same as 
other unixes.

How do you start the host kit version of R3, which has a separate 
library?

R3 for OSX does not have it separated.

The host kit version does

Anyway, I don't have OS X, so the best thing to do is to take this 
up with Karl on the Boron mailing list

If you want to run the demo, you can now do so

I'm not sure if there is a hostkit version yet for OSX. Mine comes 
from Carl.

yes, ok

The shared library for OS X is in the Git repository

ok, I haven't tried it.

The host kit became available for OS X when Andreas solved the linking 
problem on OS X for Carl

ok

Any results?

sorry, I have other things to do right now.

Here's the new manual for the Boron OpenGL interface:

http://urlan.sourceforge.net/boron/doc/UserManualGL.html

Thanks, I was curious to see that. Interesting first approach to 
an OpenGL wrapper dialect.

Boron just added an embedded assembler via LibJIT

A bit surprizing move, I guess that Red project is stimulating competition. 
:-)

well, then R3 is not a competition :-)

Seems like it :-)

Graham from Red - "Karl has failed to engage with the Rebol community 
as far as I can see."


Personally, I have found Karl very approachable and responsive on 
the Boron MIL.

What Graham meant is the "integation" with the Rebol community. I 
can't remember him much from ML, altme, web forums. But - that does 
not mean, his project is not usefull ...

He opened up all the standard open source avenues, so we are supposed 
to engage with him. But with few exceptions, we didn't

Just a remider that boron is an fully open-source REBOL-like evaluator 
built-in C. It has 23 datatypes and more than 100 "native" functions. 

The Boron homepage is at http://urlan.sourceforge.net/boron/

! Good point, Peter!

if it wasn't GPL it might already have supplanted R3 years ago.

I really don't understand the licensing issue about Boron. Java is 
GPL licensed and it doesn't stop people usng it. Boron is licensed 
under LGPL.. What is the impediment to adopting Boron?

Surely, it's only a possible problem if you are going to embed Boron 
inside your code?

Maybe it's that you can't look at the source and then work on a comparable 
non-*GPL project?