World: r3wp

(See %src/tools/make-host-{init,ext}.r for details.)

If I make a patch file that fixes the mezz problems, including the 
module-related ones, will that work? For now (when the module list 
isn't really protected yet) this is doable...

We can't hot-patch functions in R3 for security reasons, but we can 
replace them completely with fixed versions.

When would you load that patch file?

I think you mentioned somewhere, that replacing affected functions 
from user.r is not possible.

(For this particular RESOLVE issue.)

I load a patch file in %rebol.r right now, for my work use of R3. 
If I was doing my own host builds then I would put a reference to 
the patch file early on in the host-init code.

%rebol.r still works, and it loads pretty early on in the boot process. 
The host init loads earlier.

I don't have the loading intricacies in enough detail in my head 
right now to reason about this sensibly.

But I guess we could at least try, if you have a particular hotfix 
in mind.

I have a list of fixes and improvements in mind, so I'll see if there's 
some time by the end of this week to put together a patch file. I'm 
sorry that I haven't documented the module system well enough to 
make it practical for anyone other than me to patch it at runtime. 
Improving its documentation is on my todo list, though I've been 
a bit busy at work lately.

Hopefully this patch file will serve as an example for others who 
want to do similar patching.

I succesfully 'overloaded' some mezz functions in R3 in the RMA hostkit. 
See the inclusion of %rma-patches.r file in src\tools\make-host-init.r 
in the RMA host-kit release. So it is possible to do some fixes that 
way.(of course not every part can be tweaked such way)