Elan offers:
> ...perhaps we should pracitcally demonstrate our commitment and
> ability to implement OpenSource REBOL related production quality code.
> Otherwise, it just looks like alot of hot air, no?
Part of the reason that you aren't seeing a plethora of solid, commercial-grade
Web apps in Rebol is the lack of key functionality, like database connectivity
and external application / system interfaces. Perhaps when those arrive,
you'll see a renaissance of small, cool, fast Web apps written simply in Rebol.
> Wouldn't it be time to launch an OpenSource project to implement a
> REBOL extension that uses REBOL's ports mechanism to connect to dbms's that
> support ODBC? ...isn't it time to implement an OpenSource ports-based MySQL
> interface?
This would be kind of silly when, according to a press release from early fall
(if I remember correctly, it seems to have disappeared from the Website?)
/COMMAND was supposed to include this kind of functionality in a "standard"
way, and was supposed to be available in early release form before now?
Does it really make sense to invent an idiosyncratic 3rd-party API for
something when it is going to be obsoleted by technology that's already been
announced by the tools vendor in question?
jb
