The inability to run Runtime Revolution standalone apps directly from the pendrive in Feisty Herd 4 also applies to Rebol standalone apps. The message given by Feisty is:
"Cannot open /media/KINGSTON/userapp No application suitable for automatic installation is available for handling this kind of file" Such Runtime Revolution and Rebol apps are called "standalones" because that is what they are meant to be: they do not at present require any kind of installation and they can be run directly from any location in the file system, including from media such as pendrives. Setup utilites are not provided by Runtime Revolution or by Rebol simply because they are not required, and as far as I know there is no such thing as a general purpose setup utility provided by Ubuntu themselves. If this is a new "feature" rather than a bug, will it later be extended to other locations in the file system such as the Desktop or the User Home folder? And if it is a "feature", what are its motives? Under this scenario, existing applications written in RunRev or Rebol would be completely clobbered! Time has passed, April 19th is getting closer, and still there is no report from Ubuntu as to whether this is a bug or a feature has appeared. It should be understood that this is potentially a very serious matter that perhaps requires treatment at the very highest level, and for this reason I have sent copies of this post to Mr Kevin Miller of Runtime Revolution and Mr Carl Sassenrath of Rebol Technologies. Bob Warren -- Runtime Revolution progs do not run directly from pendrive in Feisty Flight 4 https://launchpad.net/bugs/88229 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
