[REBOL] Re: REBOL [REBOL.org] Packages announcement and competition
From: SunandaDH:aol at: 21-Feb-2004 11:55
A few points I'd overlooked earlier in this thread:
MAx:
> btw, I realized that there was no more rebol.org rebsite...
> maybe you guys could just include the one or two little apps you've
> got for the rebol.org site there... really.
Doing a REBOL.org rebsite is, I'm sure, going to happen one day.
It would clearly make sense as a fourth way of accessing the
REBOL.org content... The other three being:
1. from a web browser
http://www.rebol.org
2. from the downloaded desktop Library application
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/download-librarian.r
3. from within any REBOL application using Library Data Services
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/documentation.r?script=lds-local.r
I'll make sure it is on the list of Things to Do, but no promises on when :-)
--
Brett:
> For the prize, while I would be most honored and gratified to
> receive such a magnificent gift, I fear the international voyage
> this valuable item would take could be perilous and so it would
> enough for me if you could find it an alternative worthy home.
> Perhaps a local computing museum? :-)
Given I got it second hand from a thrift shop, it probably lacks
serious collectability for a museum....Maybe we'll have another
competition sometime, and I'll reoffer it as something once briefly
owned by Brett. Now that should give it some serious kudos :-)
--
Robert:
> Hi, than why not name it: fileset like it is on IOS? I don't like
> word-fragmentation ;-)
Choosing the right words for things is very important, I agree.
Apologies if I've not choose exactly the right one.
But "package" has a venerable history in this context -- at least
40 years, I'd guess.
And fileset is not quite right either. An IOS fileset will synchronise
both ways (you change the file, I get a new copy. I change the file,
you get a new copy).
A package is dumber than that. If I change a file in a package
I own, the next time you download it, you will get the new copy.
But, whatever you do to that copy -- short of emailing it to me -- I
won't even know. The synchronisation is one way only.
But yes, the IT world has way too many words for things that are
almost the same. When I do mainframe work, I talk about "data sets
whose content lives on DASD and are updated via access methods". When
I work in REBOL it's "files on a hard disk updated via ports".
Of course, a data set is not the same as a file, DASD is a wider
concept than hard disk, and an access method is not the same as a port.
But they are close enough not to really need different words.
Sunanda
