Hi Gabriele,
you wrote:
>People complaining about not being able to do lowlevel I/O, should
>really be complaining about their OS being too limited.
On the same note I've been thinking of formalizing a Standard REBOL
Execution Environment (SREE ;-), which would specify OS extensions that
would allow a seamless integration of REBOL. I.e. Open the OS's API for
REBOL port access and provide an interface specification that ensures that
REBOL scripts will be able to use stand interface words to access OS
specific capabilities.
Basically, there would be a gateway process available on a local or remote
machine, which is accessable via a standard port and supports the SREE
standard interface specification. If I want to read/write to serial port,
for instance, I access the specified port and use user supplied, platform
specific implementations of standardized words, to communicate with the
REBOL - OS Gateway on the target machine. The words are universal, their
implementation is system specific. On a different platform, my script calls
the same words, they interact with the gateway process in a way that is
compatible with that platform.
1. I'm not sure to what degree that is possible.
2. Since extended versions of REBOL have been announced, this kind of
effort may become obsolete very soon and therefore I'm not motivated to
pursue this idea too far.
Any thoughts?
Elan
