World: r3wp

even for things like zlib.

(gzip)

So, do we add https to the list? No matter if it gets adressed, it 
should be there imo. We somehow magically missed on that feature 
thru the whole development process. I never seen any blog, etc., 
which would even mention it ....

I think I might rename my nick to - "watchdog" :-)

yes https should be on the list... as a separate scheme, or a config 
of the http scheme as it was on R2

also server https would be nice - that one was not possible even 
with R2 https - I mean - you could not open open https://:443

Carl once admitted that is was possible but not "enabled".   AFAIK, 
he never told anyone the trick.  maybe its unstable and didn't want 
to put time on it.


theoretically, one could build an https server protocol in R2... 
the encryption algorithms are all there AFAIK in /pro licenses.  
its just knowing the handshaking protocols and all that... I look 
briefly at the RFC once and its not "obvious" to implement... at 
least not for the bg I have.

SSL is what you need. HTTPS would happen as a side effect.

but there is some of that built in to R2 already... which is why 
I say its *possible* to do in R2 as a server, the SSL code already 
in R2  would just have to be adapted to act as the server side of 
the handshake/transfer.

Wrong group: We need to add it to R3 :)

We need to add it to the priority list ;-)

Tasking is there already :-)

Just a question regarding GUI: We have GURUs like Henrik, Ashley, 
Cypre, Maxim. II have read that host source is being released to 
Maxim and Cypre. Why don't you build a GUI Team made of all those 
GUYs to push forward the developement ? I think they will make something 
explosive ! Also Gabriele has experiences because he build a prototype 
VID 3.4.

Our main goal would be to build the official GUI for R3, which Carl 
is forming from scratch. Right now it would be a bit foolish to go 
build our own UI to immediately go into competition with VID 3.4. 
It would be double work.

(I would still like to see Gabriele's MakeGOB dialect come to life. 
It can be very useful.)

Giuseppe - just don't worry :-) Look at the document Carl posted 
regarding host code release - there are several phases and Cyphre 
is definitely involved. I hope we cooperate for good ...

I didn't want to say: "in place of Carl" but "together with Carl" 
once the low level GFX dixes are complete.

*fixes

yes, that makes more sense :-)

Henrik, you and the other people mentioned have great skills but 
I see sometime that everyone is moving creating his one version of 
something.

Once the alpha stage ends and carl will define the roots of the new 
VID a group of high competent developers could cooperate and create 
the final product quickly and professionally.

I prefer View engine to be adressed first, definitely. More of Max 
stuff inside, more of Draw flexibility, caching, etc. .... then VID 
...

i vote for GUI  team !

And don't count on me to be part of it i'm just an idiot unable to 
understand my own source codes so the source codes from others .... 
too much a challenge

but yea maxim cyphre, gabriele, steeve, and any other people than 
me would feet the task

and they have pretty good ideas in the different area i'm sure they 
will rock VID

i'm more interrested in developping in rebol than any languages ... 
 just the idea to go back to C programing world annoys me so  much 
.... CArl is guilty with rebol he ruined my mood to code in anything 
else ....

main problem in ssl is the certificate no ?

Host code works now - Carl reported he once again succesfully separated 
host from Core ....

Is this actually going to be released? And could we hope, the same 
thing would happen to R2, which is more interesting (to me at least).

The host code release is going to be limited to 2-3 devs at first 
to weed out bugs.

Geomol - why is R2 more interesting to you? I can't somehow understand 
it :-) There is many areas R3 already surpasses R2, is more precisely 
defined and consistent. Time to move to R3 really soon imo ...

I doubt you will see R2 source release anytime soon. R2 is monolithic 
in design, who knows how it is (or is not) internally separated. 
R3 was the answer to R2 inefficiency in that regard, so if you ask 
for R2 to have such a feature, you ask for R3 in fact :-)

Geomol - host release plan can be found here - http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Host-Builds

I think that initially it will be released to only handset of developers, 
and after two or three weeks (my estimate),  maybe others will be 
added too ...

I have a huge graphical application written in R2 (Canvas RPaint, 
close to 13'000 lines of code), that I can't get released because 
of host problems and differences in REBOL between OSs. I do much 
of my development under OS X, and I have lots of utilities and applications 
written in R2, that suffer from problems in REBOL/View, that I might 
be able to solve, if the host code was released. I have tried to 
look into the graphical part of R3, but I can't see, how I'm able 
to convert my code to R3.


(I'm sorry to say so, but R3 to me looks like a hobby project, not 
a serious business projekt.)

Geomol, I wouldn't expect any further development on lowlevel R2 
View.

R3 is Alpha! A little unfair to call it a hobby project..

Geomol, last year I have written the same thing but this year a lot 
has happened.

Once alpha i finalized and VID is complete expect a boost into the 
development.

Also I suppose REBOL is short of money and programmers so they cannot 
speed up the project.

Geomol - you are completly off. I would not expect reaction like 
yours from person like you. Calling R3 dev. effort a hobby project? 
Where do you live, man? On a different planet? Sorry for being picky, 
but R2 dev. effort, compared to what we achieved with R3, is a complete 
joke, yet you call R3 being a hobby project?

Geomol - wait half a year, and you might get even View/VID in R3. 
Core 3.0 is close.

It would be good, if you are right.


As an example of my use of R2, and where I can't use R3, look at 
this image:
http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/bachelor/dist.png


I'm working on my bachelor project in astronomy at the university. 
I'm going to make a simulation of comets at the Late Heavy Bombartment 
some 3.9 bio. years ago to test a theory, that the water on Earth 
came from those comets. A part of my work is to study earlier simulaitons 
of 10'038 comets made by others. I would like to see, how the distribution 
of their initial situation looked, so I made a little REBOL script, 
that plotted the 10'038 comets and the orbits of the planets, Jupiter, 
Saturn, Uranus and Neptun. The image is showing this. It took me 
very little time to write the script in R2, and I can use the result.

Can you see, I can't use R3 for such things?

Geomol, it sounds like you expect that R3 will never be able to do 
that. Why this attitude?

No, you misunderstand. I hope and expect R3 to be able to do that 
some day. I just look at the facts:
The project has been gong on for 4 years since 2005.
Where it is now.

When I can expect it to be in a condition, where I would begin to 
use it for real. (I've learnt to have very small expectations.)

I'm trying to answer the question from Pekr: "why is R2 more interesting 
to you? I can't somehow understand it"

I think that trying to get R2 View working properly under OSX will 
take longer than reaching the same goal for R3. I don't think there 
is much we can do in terms of speeding either R2 or R3 development 
up, so it's simply a matter of waiting until it's ready with the 
number of developers available to us. I don't want to disturb R3 
development with too much interference from R2.

Fair enough.

I said a looong time ago that we would, when R3 reaches beta, require 
a much larger number of developers to move forward. When extensions 
and host are properly released, this will still be the case.

Henrik, you've used R3 more than I have, I think. Do you remember 
my work on FITS files in the spring from my visit to the telescopes 
at Tenerife? I made images from the 16MB FITS files using R2. It 
took 1-2 minutes to compute one file, where it takes less than a 
second if using C. How do you think, R3 perform compared to R2, when 
it comes to brute force calculations?

If it's math heavy it will probably be around the same. If you use 
graphics, the better scalability of having many GOBs will help speed 
up certain operations. DRAW is currently around the same speed. If 
you use it as a C extension, then you will of course get C speeds. 
There are a few tricks in R3 to reduce the need for copying as well 
as some functions that have gone from mezzanine to native.

I made a quick test to compare calc performance between R2 and R3. 
A 10'000'000 loop of some simple + * and /. It took around 17 seconds 
using R2, and 27 seconds using R3. If this is not changing, then 
I will probably continue to use R2 more than R3.

The key is that if we want real speed, we can do it in C now.