The week ending 20th May 2007

Devcon2007

Carl Sassenrath posted his Devcon 2007 presentation slides

http://www.rebol.com/notes/devcon07-carl.zip

RebGUI

Ashley: "Build#94 uploaded to SVN. Contains minor tooltip, drop-list, request-menu, on-click and on-alt-click fixes."

Redwerks

Terry announced Rash1.1 Rebol/Flash hybrid Personal Agent.

http://alicefair.com/rash/rash1.1.zip

(RAMBO)
Oldes' HTTP patch, adding 303 response

Oldes "just found, that youtube do not respect HTTP1.0 protocol => sends HTTP1.1 303
response even if client require HTTP1.0 (which is Rebol case). As there is no response
specified for 303 in Rebol's http handler, it can be fixed using:"

 use [tmp][
  tmp: select second get in system/schemes/http/handler 'open to-set-word 'response-actions
  if none? find tmp 303 [ insert tmp reduce [303 select tmp 302] ]
 ]

 ; example test
 trace/net on
 p: open/direct http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=FVbf9tOGwno&t=OEgsToPDskKR0Ng6kANs3Z4VNG81T2tZ
 error? try [close p] 

(Note, I think YouTube urls, as above, expire quickly, so you would have to get a more current one.)
(And I think this patch should be classified as a "temporary workaround patch".)

Discussions

• Some other concise languages, Mathematica and ContextFreeArt, were brought up.
  
• Ladislav was asking what the best way to handle recursive includes should be in his include system.
  
• rebol vs scheme, associative model of data..)
  

Mail list:

• Dissatisfaction with NEW-LINE argument order and proposed NEW-LINES function with a mini dialect.
  
• Discussion of Rebol equivalents AWK and GREP, ended up with some disagreement over preferred arg order.
  

Posted by Graham on Anton's behalf