REBOL 2.7 Changes
Section: REBOL Change Logs
Updated 26-May-2010/14:29:53 UTC - (F5 to reload)
REBOL 2.7.8 (In Development)
- Installer Changes
- In GUI, provide these install options:
- No install (normal operation)
- Use current directory (portable app)
- Install user-local (no admin needed)
- Install system-wide (admin needed)
- User-local: registry hive for current-user not local-machine.
- System-wide put exe in Program Files, User-local put exe in %appdata%
- Both will use %appdata% storage area for sandbox, unless user provides different location.
- System-wide will set file association, program links.
- Windows Registry and environment
- Add environment expansion to get-env function, converting paths like %appdata% .
- Add /values refinement to list-reg to return a block of value names for any registry entry.
- Enable run function? Use ShellExecute for launch via file associations?
- R2/Forward (source: DevBase)
- Unix helpers: cd ls more pwd rm
- single?
- collect-words
- invalid-utf?
- ascii? fixes
- latin1? fixes
- resolve (unless native)
- Other
- Fix Command boot problem.
- Merge Graham's HTTP fixes (source: DevBase)
- Change "bad face in screen pane" issue on non-X env boot
- SDK Icon fix (2.7.7 had old, non XP compatible icon)
- If minor coding efforts, these can be added
REBOL 2.7.7 1-Jan-2010
- View/Pro features enabled: allowing SSL, ODBC, and encryption
- Adds R2/Forward mezzanine functions (from Brian Hawley)
- Re-enables installation and proper view-root startup (appdata dir on Win32)
- Install and uninstall added to ViewTop GUI panels
- Fixes LOAD with PORTS that return strings to be loaded as blocks.
- Fixes Decode-CGI for url-encoded variables (e.g. used by Flash)
- Fixes Strict-not-equal? of integers and adds != and !== operators
Prior Releases
Prior updates can be found on the R2 Updates Blog (frozen).
