hi Jedi, as an example, I know for certain that just about 0% of my 10 years of rebol codebase is compatible with R3. not only the view stuff but even the core stuff too.
if you consider elixir with its over 350kb of assembled (and already clean and compact) code.. this is not so trivial, but its the price to pay for improvements. currently, I'm not attempting ports, because R3 is still a bit to slippery for me to consider really use, and its still lacking a few things which are needed in most of my application development. in fact right now, R3 would give me no real added benefits in raw feature (a part from a boost in evaluation speed) since R2 is already competent, and any functionality issues have been already addressed for my needs. I just resurrected an old project of mine (which is going to be liquified within a week or two) and just running it within 2.7.6 is causing it to crash unexpectedly.. this is a common problem in all computer languages, unfortunately. -MAx On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Þemseddin Moldibi [ Bircom ] < [email protected]> wrote: > > I think it is not necessary to port/rewrite R2 scripts to R3 unless you = > really need some R3 features. > R2 is also good and stable. I still have projects on R2, even if R3 is = > released I will finish them on R2 anyway. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf = > Of Gregg Irwin > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:03 PM > To: Alan Macleod > Subject: [REBOL] Re: Compatibility REBOL 2.x / REBOL 3.0 ? > > > Hi Alan, > > AM> I would think most scripts in r2 are either small enough to port = > with no > AM> problem or are looking for an excuse to rewrite: tighten up code, = > add new > AM> function etc. > > Not for me. I have production code that is made of large and small > scripts, encapped apps, CGIs, and remote services. Qtask.com has a > *lot* of REBOL code behind it. Graham Chiu and others also have apps > out there for which porting is not an opportunity, but perhaps a > necessary (and risky) cost of doing business. > > -- Gregg > > --=20 > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to=20 > 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. > > -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
