[REBOL] Re: ANN: New Rugby release + website
From: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 9-Feb-2002 3:22
Maarten Koopmans wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>There is a new Rugby release + website , although minimalistic ;-)
>I have added lots of code, and finally removed even more.
>
>What is Rugby now?
>What it was, but only with http transport, that uses compression. Improved
>marshaling, security bugs fixed.
>
>I invite you all to use it and test it, if you find bugs, report them to me.
>I'll fix it asap.
>Within a week or so I will send a standalone version of RebXR to Andreas, as
>XML-RPC has disappeared as well.
>
>In the end I tossed out a lot of goodies that I said would be in the next
>version, which I called XPi.
>
So you don't call current version XPi?
> Why not? As it turns out you can do everything
>(well, most of it) based on the current core. So the advice well taken was
>'keep the core simple'. If you think you get less, you are *right*, but
>less is more. A lot of redundant code has disappeared, and the thing is much
>leaner now. For programmers that tends to be a good thing.
>
>Start using it! That's what I'll do the next few months....
>
I like the doc coming with Rugby distro. Very clean, understandable,
short and good for starting to use rugby.
btw: I would make Rugby even easier by using:
sexec
secure-serve
get-rugby-service/secure-code
secure-result-available?
using:
rexec/secure
serve/secure
get-rugby-service/secure
result-available?/secure
It would be even cleaner, easier to remember, powerfull, - rebolish. -
just one refinement to remember, and the same function names to use ...
Quite interesting part is:
NOTE: In REBOL/COMMAND 2.0 rsa-generate-key does sometimes not function.
As a side effect you cannot use secure transport with Command 2.0
In that case, ask Rebol Technologies for a different build.
Is that confirmed /Command 2.0 has any such bug?
>Another reason not to put too much effort in some features is that REBOL is
>still young and evolving. I expect the next releases of REBOL to incorporate
>changes in the area of networking, serializing values etc.
>
That's probably OK. Has current rewrite any speed difference in
comparison to "old" Rugby? Also - what is, and what is not implemented?
Profiler? Functions for adding, removing Rugby functions, exec-code?
Adding a module system, module exchange and migration
, etc?
Thanks,
-pekr-
