World: r4wp

Reliably?

I'm unsure about that.

Time to try again, I guess :)

So far, testing with a modified %rsc.r on Linux, it seems to be reliable.

Do you use rsc.r from the REBOL console as well?

Well, seems to even properly work with DO.

(Testing with R2.7.8 on Linux.)

Yes, from REBOL console.

So `change-dir system/options/path` at the top of rsc.r it is :) 
?

Not sure this would covers all cases.

We need two paths: one for locating red-system/ root directory and 
another one for the working directory.
So:
- system/script/path should give us red-system/ root
- system/options/path should give us working directory

`do load %rsc.r` and DO-ing rsc.r from an URL are the two only cases 
I can think of right away where it might make not much sense (it 
would then use the workdir the REBOL interpreter was started.)

script/path & options/path: yes

What we want is ability to call %rsc.r from anywhere, compiling a 
program from working dir (or relative to working dir) and producing 
the binary in the working dir.

(Kaj correct me if I'm wrong)

Yes, that's what we want.

Yes

A minor question re the output binary remains: do we want to keep 
up the automatic executable name guessing we do at the moment (foo.reds 
-> foo || foo.exe), or do we want to use non-descript default name.

And if we want to keep the "nice" exe names (which would be my guess), 
what to do if the target file already exists?

Most developer friendly (imo): just overwrite it.

Automatic name guessing: yes, we want to keep that and overwrite 
it if exists already.

Ok, should be an easy change, but I guess the test runners will need 
adapting (if we want the new behaviour to be the default).

Yes, we'll need to adapt all our tests scripts. That's why I've tagged 
the last commit for the release, to avoid further delays.

Added floating point support to the SQLite binding

Nice!

It was mostly uncommenting some prepared lines :-)

Andreas: if you know how to improve working dir handling in %rsc.r, 
feel free to do so when you want. We'll adapt the test scripts accordingly.

I'm trying to move the SQLite binding into a CONTEXT, but I've hit 
a bug

Nenad" "Peter: the lib-test file is crashing here on my OS X 10.6.2 
image with following error:"


Did you install Xcode including the Unix libs?  I wrote the tests 
under OS X 10.6 but am now running on 10.7.

What we want is ability to call %rsc.r from anywhere, compiling a 
program from working dir (or relative to working dir) and producing 
the binary in the working dir.


Please can we also supply a second argument to rsc.r for the output 
dir/file name (the gcc -o option with improvements).


If the second argument is a dir then the executable is written to 
that dir instead of the current working dir.


If the second argument is a file then the executable is saved with 
that name.

(That would really help with quick-test).

I just checked on my old machine, I did re-wrtie the lib tests on 
OS X 10.6 but on OS X 10.7.

I meant that I re-wrote the lib tests on OS X 10.7 not 10.6.

Did you install Xcode including the Unix libs?

 I have Xcode installed, but don't know if it includes Unix libs or 
 not...how can I check that?

The -o command-line option for %rsc.r is already there (and since 
a while). ;-)

I was reviewing my old iMagick.reds binding for a while and found 
that it the current version I cannot write something like:
		DrawComment: "DrawComment" [
			;== Adds a comment to a vector output stream
			;-- void DrawComment(DrawingWand *wand,const char *comment)
			wand          [DrawingWand!] ;the drawing wand.
			comment   [c-string!] ;comment text
		]
It throws:
*** Loading Error: invalid comment string


Do we really need to have 'comment word such an important? I'm pretty 
sure I would never use it in declarations (as a comment).

It should be allowed imported functions spec block.

*allowed in

I don't like it:/ Could it be at least used only with string after 
comment word?

There are some issues with context which I found..
1.
WITH is not able to find enums defined in CONTEXT

c: context [
	#enum SomeEnum! [FooFalse FooTrue]
	test: does [
		print FooTrue
	]
]
with c [
	test ;prints 1

 ;; print FooTrue ;<-- *** Compilation Error: undefined symbol: FooTrue
]

Yes, we currently lack some tests for covering combination of WITH 
and all namespace-aware type of elements.

2.

#enum fooEnum! [x y: x z] ;<-- possible
c: context [

 #enum SomeEnum! [foo boo: foo] ;<-- *** Compilation Error: cannot 
 resolve literal enum value for: c/boo 
]

Could it be at least used only with string after comment word?
 I'm not sure what you mean?

limmit comment only on strings... but right, one would not see an 
error while used with block and expecting comment and not just some 
definition.

Personaly I use only:   comment {something}   never:   comment [something]

And as I'm recently coding not just in REBOL, I like shorter multine 
comments used in other languages /*  */

comment in REBOL is just native function which takes one argument 
and does nothing.

>> comment (x: 2 + 2) x
== 4

So in Red/System it should not be handled in loader

(but I know it's just a sugar and I can rename 'comment into 'text 
in the declaration above).. The problem is, that I don't write these 
manually.

Issue 1. fixed.