The Rebol Week

Rebol3 Carl has indicated that Rebol3 will implement a class based approach to support object methods. The driving force for this is a better C interface, and ease of implementation. Ladislav Mercir has been appointed charge of developing the test suites as well as other duties. So, if you need a particular test case, contact Ladislav. Carl has also updated his blogging script to support comments - source available. It looks pretty nice. Rebol.org Cyphre has released my-http.r which allows transparent cookie handling in http(s). It looks like this was funded by qTask. Edgar has updated his imagemagick script to support the latest version. I have not been able to get this going yet, but I have been able to use the comlib with the imagemagickobject.dll com server. For example using the Com+ server and the comlib, if you need to display an image in View that is an unsupported format such as PDF, or Tiff, you can use imagemagick to convert the file to png, and then display it. file:...

Pdf-maker 2 Gabriele continues to make progress with this long awaited upgrade to pdf-maker. You can see his current development status http://www.colellachiara.com/soft/PDFM2/ though the source remains in a state of flux. Rebol Timelines It appears that RT has taken some umbrage at the suggestion that they appear to jump from project to project. Of course, we only said that in order to extract more information! And here is their response - a timeline of current activities http://www.rebol.net/projects.html QML QML is another markup language used exclusively by the developers at qtask . Head honcho Reichart promises more open source: " We will be providing the source to a client level QML to HTML generator next week. " MikeL was asking for Textile support instead of make-doc, but Gabriele feels that QML is more powerful. I personally have a deeper interest in producing PostScript for high quality printout .. and perhaps I will post my solution another day. Reboltalk New...

Recycle Refinements Carl asks whether garbage collection should be triggered on each recycle for Rebol3. Experts : post your opinions! LDAP and Radius Reichart let slip that they have ( nearly ) working support for LDAP and Radius. He also said " We have not published that source, but I'm cool with it being published. It is not fully tested yet, in fact it will be tested very soon. You have to pound on Edgar to get him to post the source." So, if you need this, pound away! PDF Maker Gabriele announced that everyone using the PDF Maker on View 1.3 should update to his latest version, as previous ones contained bugs. He also offered a preview of what you will be able to do with PDF Maker 2 .