The Rebol Week

This weekly summary idea has been well received, and we now have 4 new contributors. Please welcome Sunanda, Volker, Max, and YekSoon. Although we do not aspire to become an e-zine, like the much missed Rebol/Zine , we will be happy to accept small articles that we can publish within the constraints of the blog format. Plugin Discussions continue on the security model to be used by the plugin. A design document is being drafted by Josh, and should be available for comment within a couple of weeks. Scripts Anton has updated his batch-download.r script so that you can now skip a file, pause, and abort. Very useful stuff. Graham's demo using this script has been updated as well. Vollker has released his mini RCS system named snapsets . Henrik released version 0.0.41 of his very useful list-view - a powerful extension to the list style. Gabriele released his structure matching and rewriting tool . With this you can match a structure using parse rules, and replace it with another...

The REBOL community, though small, spreads itself thinly across the globe, and in many different forms of electronic publishing. There has been a preference in particular for Rebolers to hide in dark secretive worlds even away from other Rebolers though this has improved with the publishing of some content from Altme Rebol3 to rebol.net. This blog is therefore an attempt to summarise the weeks news and activities in the Rebol community. RebGUI Robert announced that he had contracted Cyphre to work on some fixes, and to build a tree widget. Anton announced he has finally debugged the area widget of some long standing issues. http://www.rebol.net/altweb/rebol3/chat303.html Mailing List For the first time in living memory, a poster had to be removed from the list for creating a lot of ill feeling. Let's hope it is the last time. Gregg, Ladislav and others discussed a collect function implementation. What does a collect function do?? Apparently it is designed to reduce some dancin...