I would normally agree with the statements below as well, except that 'REBOL is not C'. By that I mean that REBOL is more of a platform or environment than simply a language, and I believe that RT's approach of 'chunky' releases better suits the platform approach. You can depend on certain features ALWAYS being in certain releases. Additionally, just how much optimization do you want - REBOL is only 500K, unheard of these days.
> > 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 :-) I think for most people that downloading and installing ALL of REBOL will take vastly less time than downloading a one-liner and replacing it in a given environment. :0 For embedded and dedicated apps, /Encap should strip out unused code and minimize size, not the /releases themselves. /Face Kemp > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Carl Read > Sent: September 30, 2002 4:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re: even further ... Re: Introducing REBOL/Base - FAQ > > > 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. > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
