On Saturday, 15-September-2007 at 11:06:08 greg.schofield wrote, >The thrid option, is to make REBOL core source available, on an as is bas= >is - a licensing agreement (how the hell it would be enforced I don't kno= >w) where the source can only be used for porting and only "adpated" for t= >hat purpose. > >But once released there is no getting things back, multiple slightly inco= >mpatible REBOLs, or REBOL itself bloating because of innovations elsewher= >e with the source code would in my opinion be no good.
But we've already got incompatible REBOLs, a lot of OSs being dropped between 1.2 and 1.3 (of View). This is the 1.2 list... http://www.rebol.com/view-platforms.shtml and this the 1.3: http://www.rebol.net/builds/ And when REBOL 3's released, we'll have another level of incompatibility. Here's the March 2006 discussion from this list about the announcement of REBOL 3... http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-thread.r?m=rmlYFBC I stick my oar in at post 13, pointing out that there's a heap of unfinished REBOL-related stuff around as it is. ('The Mac View version is still "pending" on their website, though in alpha or beta if you look deeply. And REBOL Services? It's still in alpha or beta too I believe, as is Rebcode. And the REBOL plugin is still only on IE.') I think there's been a Linux version of the plugin released since then, though I don't know the status of Services or Rebcode. And note the "My personal target date is to have alpha releases available in the late April time frame, with beta by June." here... http://web.archive.org/web/20060422002100/http://www.rebol.com/notes/rebol3roadmap.html#section-5 That was April/June 2006. See why I'm not too optimistic about REBOL becoming a success any time soon? I love the language to bits, but its marketing and direction is all over the place. -- Carl Read. -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
