[REBOL] Re: Rugby RIP
From: carl:cybercraft at: 18-Jan-2002 9:30
On 18-Jan-02, Petr Krenzelok wrote:
> Maarten Koopmans wrote:
>> All,
>> Rugby is officially dead, the web sites have been removed. You may
>> use it (including republishing) as the BSD license indicates if you
>> stil have it.
>> With IOS coming Rebol will have a built-in distributed system. If
>> IOS fails there is no case for such thing anyway. I feel it is in
>> Rebols best interest if there 'is only one'.
>> Thank you all for using it and making it a fun.
>> Goodbye,
>> Maarten
> Maarten, excuse me, but that is the worst scenario you choosed to
> support! I really can't understand it. What do you know of IOS that
> you are sure it provides the same functionality? ;-/
It has certainly generated more discussion here than IOS. (:
> I am not sure we are not doomed. Nenad stopped free fast-cgi
> protocol implementation, simply to don't compete with RT, and you
> announce just similar strategy for Rugby. Such kind of scenario
> ("there is only one way", "mother company centric") can work against
> us and rebol itself in the long run ....
I had a vague feeling I'd seen Rugby mentioned on the REBOL site, but
I can't find the reference there any more. I did notice that Core,
Command and View are now refered to as "REBOL Messaging Language
Products". How long has that been the case?
> Anyway, thanks for the rugby - best piece of Rebol code and proof of
> easily done distributed computing so far ....
> -pekr-
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Carl Read
