World: r3wp

We will not be delaying 2.7.8 to update the appearance of View :)

Some of what is coming in 2.7.8:

- Bug fixes and enhancements to improve Cheyenne, and other apps 
that have to do similar stuff.

- Some native fixes for non-Windows platforms, particularly Linux.

- Environment variable stuff: GET-ENV expansion on Windows, SET-ENV, 
LIST-ENV

- Function fixes: RUN enabled, LIST-REG/values, possibly TO-LOCAL-FILE

- R2/Forward: FUNCT/extern, LAST?, COLLECT-WORDS, EXTRACT fixes, 
ASCII? fixes, LATIN1? fixes, INVALID-UTF?, CD, LS, MORE, PWD, RM

- (Still pending) Natives: ASSERT, APPLY, RESOLVE, FOREACH set-word 
support

wow, worth waiting for updating UltraEdit Wordfile

Some of the registry stuff is broken on R2/command .. hope they are 
fixed and not just enabled

One of the things we would like to do is easily detect all installed 
fonts in windows, and install new fonts

Have the registry bugs been reported? If not, do so here or in RAMBO. 
(I am a bit new to the RAMBO admin process.)

I have reported them ... just checking to see where

Ok, it wasn't rambo

This is from August in the SDK group


Trying to see if .net is installed but this gives me an empty block 


 foreach key keys: list-reg/HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet 
 Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform" [
                print key
 ]

even though I can see it full of keys in the registry ...

And from View in Sept 26

and ...


keys: list-reg/HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts"
    probe keys


    keys: get-reg/HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" 
    "URW Palladio L Italic (TrueType)"
    probe keys


    keys: exists-reg?/HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts\URW 
    Palladio L Italic (TrueType)" 
    probe keys

produces this

[]
URWPA32_0.TTF
false

Those are not keys, those are values. LIST-REG/values will get those.

Btw, the registry functions are still not made available in regular 
/View, for the same security reasons as before.

2.7.8 released! http://www.rebol.com/article/0502.htmlHappy New 
Year!

At least for Windows so far. Things that didn't make it in this version:
- The TO-LOCAL-FILE fix for Windows UNC paths
- FOREACH set-word support
- ASSERT, APPLY and RESOLVE are still mezzanine

But as a bonus, we got SELECT and FIND on objects, and that is better 
than any of those others :)

Congrats

where's the fix log?

Hasn't been updated yet.

Give us a bone

and for linux ?????

What is the plan for next release ?
Do we need to post bug/request on RAMBO ?

I think so. RAMBO is still the only offical bug report for R2

OK. Thx

I miss a detailed change-log, as we can see it for R3 ....

I can find this one, but not sure what got implemented in the end 
- http://www.rebol.com/docs/changes-2-7.html

I understand Brian's answer that it will be available, but it's simply 
not done yet.

Btw.. it would be nice to port the bugs from old tired Rambo to the 
CureCode hospital, where it's pretty visible which bug is fixed and 
if the fix is tested as well.

Is the download page for 2.7.8 easy to find?

as usualy http://www.rebol.com/download-view.html

So far win only

Thanks.... curious that this link does not yet show it http://www.rebol.com/download.html

Yes... the blog was released too early I think.

January 1 deadline

What found new : unbind, resolve, list-env, cd, ls, more, pwd, rm

I listed most of the changes above, except for the details of the 
Linux changes (which I don't know much about).

What we got in 2.7.8, that I know of:

- Bug fixes and enhancements to improve Cheyenne, and other apps 
that have to do similar stuff.

- Some native fixes for non-Windows platforms, particularly Linux. 
See ACCESS-OS.

- Environment variable stuff: GET-ENV expansion on Windows, SET-ENV, 
LIST-ENV

- Function fixes: SELECT object!, FIND object!, RUN enabled, LIST-REG/values

- R2/Forward: FUNCT/extern, LAST?, COLLECT-WORDS, RESOLVE, APPLY 
fixes, EXTRACT fixes, ASCII? fixes, LATIN1? fixes, INVALID-UTF?, 
CD, LS, MORE, PWD, RM

no ODBC fix ?

where more than one date is passed as a parameter?

We really need to make a roadmap for a 2.8 version of R2 !

I don't know, but Carl didn't mention it. We won't have as long a 
wait until the next release - Carl is multitasking.

2.7.8 was due early last year

Nve, we will have 2.7.10, etc. We don't plan a 2.8 yet.

Past performance is not predictor of future development practices 
in the REBOL world, you should know that by now. Think about how 
different last year was from the year before.

Past predictions of future development are consistently wrong .. 
you should now that by now

Yup, that too. Especially when they are based on what happened in 
the past.

As R3 has no official release still in alpha mode and because there's 
a big shift between R2 and R3, professionnals user's of REBOL really 
need to have a plan for R2 support, R2 bug fixes, R2 enhancement...

Is there's something to migrate script written in R2 to script in 
R3 ?

Not yet, as R3 is a bit of a moving target. Most R2 code will run 
in R3 if it doesn't use any GUI or port code. Part of the migration 
strategy has been the R2/Forward stuff, which allows you to write 
code in a more R3-like way in R2. Plus, we are backporting some of 
the native enhancements that are additive rather than changing, like 
SELECT on objects.

We have a few plans for R2 enhancement, mostly the View installer 
on Windows, but for the most part we are just backporting enhancements 
from R3 whenever we can and they are backwards compatible. Bug fixes 
and additions, no big changes, that is the policy. R2 is in backwards-compatibility 
mode as a rule.

On my windows XP SP3 the VIEW is failing as invalid exe; the CORE 
is fine;  these are both numbered 3.1 for 2.7.8 and no change with 
fresh download; the inspected exe is not garbage but kicks this error 
whether in open cmd session console or fired by explorer - I did 
not try under Cygwin or MSys yet ...

works here with XP SP3

Here on XP SP3 all of the exes, including View, Core and the SDK 
programs all work. Have you tried redownloading and reextracting? 
Are there other system settings or software that you have that might 
affect this? Which antimalware or firewall apps are you using?