On 30-Sep-02, Petr Krenzelok wrote:
> Carl Read wrote:

>> On 30-Sep-02, Mike Hansen wrote:
>>
>>> Why not have one version but allow for removing 
>>> components?  Then the average user just has one 
>>> downlad and no work to do, but 'power' users can 
>>> customize their install to trim it for their 
>>> specific purposes.  At least you'd know that most 
>>> people could run your script without additional 
>>> effort.  And the assumption would be if you knew 
>>> enough to remove a component, then you'd know enough 
>>> to put it back if you wanted to run a script that 
>>> required it.
>>>
>> 
>> That's the nicest idea I've heard so far.  Just have the executable
>> accept two optional arguments, the first to tell it to run in lite
>> mode and the second being a list of the components to load.
>> 
> it can be nice idea, but the purpose is as follows - I want to have
> an option to download e.g. Sound 1.2.3 component upgrade, I use my
> cell phone connected to my PDA and I am not interested in
> downloading whole Rebol just because some bug was fixed in Sound
> component. So - one file? Good, but there would have to be the
> option to replace rebol.exe's Sound component by new one :-)

And a full-featured REBOL/View exe may get quite large over the years
and require a few megs of disk-space.  But Mike's idea would be an
option for those who don't have space worries but still need to run a
lite-version of REBOL now and then.  And you can run Base (or Face or
Beam or whatever) on your cell-phone - since it's here now anyway. (:

-- 
Carl Read

-- 
To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the 
subject, without the quotes.

Reply via email to