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
• unbind
• assert
• apply
• resolve (doubtful)
• list-env (but returns a block)
• allow set-word mode on foreach

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).