World: r3wp

Kaj, can you post some code which breaks DIR?

Just human

Why don't you just port dir? func from r2?

.... it is a mezzanine, you need to port throw-on-error to be compatible 
...

¨ dir? anything¨

interesting... dir? works fine here.

Thanks, Petr, that should work

ah, I get it now

but it does test correctly for existing directories. it's a little 
ambiguous, but testing also for EXISTS? could help

You sure??

>> dir? %asdfsdf/
== false

it seems it will do this:

- it tests FALSE for an existing file
- it tests FALSE for an existing file and adding a /

- it tests TRUE for a non-existing dir with an ending / <-- bogus?
- it tests TRUE for an existing dir with an ending /
- it tests TRUE for an existing dir without an ending /

crap ... had wrong version of rebol up

the bogus one would be eliminated with an EXISTS?. still it's a simpler 
way to test for non-existing dirs, say in preferences files for paths 
and some basic syntax checking.

but you also have to check the ending / if you want to form paths

in R2, we have to do the "#"/" = last file" check

annoying ...

so, I think there should be a function for that, but having it in 
DIR? may be ambiguous.

I'm adding a ticket, just to be sure.

So, we need a function that both checks that file exists, and it's 
a directory?

so... there should not be a need to port the R2 one, just ask like 
this:

all [
	exists? file
	dir? file
]

That shouldn't hurt the R2 version.

Even info?/type is incompatible. ´directory for R2 and ´dir for R3

probably related to ports being different in R3. I'll make a ticket.

The exists? check is insufficient, because it will return true if 
a regular file exists but the value is written in dir form with a 
trailing /

exists? %/c/msdos.sys
== true

exists? %/c/msdos.sys/
== false

or is it R2? checking...

ah, yes. there is an issue in R2.

The issue is in R3

The above code was pasted from R3.

exists? %dark

== true

exists? %dark/

== true

does %dark exist? I don't get that result.

It´s a regular file

Are you on Windows?

I've tried without a root dir now and I get the same result as I 
pasted above.

yes, XP

This is WINE

I could test in crossover if I had the diskspace...

I will investigate whether we want WINE related bugs in Curecode.

There´s no other way to run on Linux

Wine is beta software still .... and AFAIK, the decimal bug is still 
present wrt R2.

True, but Wine is not a very stable platform. It might be a Wine 
problem.

Though the Wine team has asked us to see if it is still present.

Wine is past 1.0 since a year or so

But that´s beside the point. The only offered way to run on non-Windows 
is on WINE

The root of all evil is pointing fingers at other IT suppliers

a little over dramatic ...

especially when wine has been known to be buggy.