Rotten root

Hi List, What's wrong with view-root? I had in mind that view-root was always returning the Rebol/View folder. For me, the Rebol/View folder is %/D/REBOL/VIEW/ Using View version 1.2.10, I see now that view-root gives me whatever folder my script is. I have tested it with the following script: Rebol[] help view-root This program displays "VIEW-ROOT is a file of value: %/D/REBOL/VIEW/PUBLIC/PROG/" when my scrip is in /D/REBOL/VIEW/PUBLIC/PROG/. It displays "VIEW-ROOT is a file of value: %/D/REBOL/VIEW/PUBLIC/" when my scrip is in /D/REBOL/VIEW/PUBLIC/. Has it always been like that? Is it just my imagination ? That's a problem for me, because I need a fixed repair to find some script and I was used to write stuff like that: do rejoin [view-root %public/include/new-skin.r] Regards Patrick

Hi Patrick, I guess this is caused by the missing installation "feature". Somehow Rebol/View checks its installation info for view-root, and not the path where it is really located. IIRC Carl once explained this to be a security feature, because it's not possible to put a compromised rebol version into your path before the official version. That said, I guess you'll have to wait for the next release, or revert to the last. Regards, Ingo patrick wrote:

> Hi List, > What's wrong with view-root? I had in mind that view-root was always returning the Rebol/View folder. > Regards > Patrick