I have a large project now almost complete in R2...I can't wait to port it to r3. It needs a major rewrite anyway. (Sloppy code, discovered better ways to do things, new features that only R3 can offer)
I would think most scripts in r2 are either small enough to port with no problem or are looking for an excuse to rewrite: tighten up code, add new function etc. That's the good thing about rebol...most scripts are small and easy to write the first time...now with r3 it may get easier and much more powerful...why worry about rewriting them? And if it works well enough now - no need to change it...R2 is not going away. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jedi Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [REBOL] Re: Compatibility REBOL 2.x / REBOL 3.0 ? Hi, > No, there will be very little compatibility with regards to REBOL/View > and VID scripts. R3 is a redesign from the ground up, keeping only the > greatest parts of R2 and building entirely new parts and changing > existing ones. As such, the GUI engine is completely rewritten with > more simplicity and ease of use in mind. > > For Core only scripts, some compatibility remains and with a special > R2-forward function package, some R3 functions have been backported to > R2 in slower versions, but even there, some fundamental changes in R3 > will not allow existing scripts to be easily interchangable with R2. > > To write future scripts to be compatible with both R2 and R3, you must > write them with both R2 and R3 in mind. This is possible. But to run > existing scripts, you must first rewrite or adapt them to R3. Thank you, it's more clear. I hope that the adaptations between R2 and R3 will be minor, otherwise it= will be difficult to port some applications... :-/ > -- > Regards, > Henrik Mikael Kristensen Kind regards, Sebastien 'Jedi' Jeudy. _________________________________________ http://www.sebastien-jeudy.fr -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
