[REBOL] Rugby 4: release and documentation!
From: m::koopmans2::chello::nl at: 15-Aug-2001 13:59
Hi List,
Rugby 4 has been released to the Reb as rugby4.r
You can find a distribution and documentation on:
http://www.rebolforces.com/~erebol
Many thanks to Allen Kamp for web hosting and for Ernie van der Meer for co-coding.
Rugby is a rebol request broker that simplifies distributed computing dramatically.
What's new?
- poll-for-result has been dropped and changed to result-available? and get-result.
See the docs for usage. Rationale was that you couldn't distinguish between false values
when using poll-for-result.
- The serialization mechanism has been greatly enhanced and works much better.
- sexec also supports the /oneway and /deferred refinements
- Rugby servers generate stub code that can be automatically imported by clients using
get-rugby-service <url> This provides wrapper functions for all rugby service functions
available on <url> to the local machine. Effectively you don't need to type rexec [ echo
"lala" ] but you can just do echo "lala" which handles everything transparently. See
the docs. Very very very cool.
Thanks to Ernie!
- Added the source of Rugby in modules with a built system in the main distrib. For those
who want to add/change.
- Added documentation (The Rebol Zine article updated for this release)
Enjoy and let me know what you think.
--Maarten