The Rebol Week

We have already some new binaries to download with some fixes courtesy of Earl If someone wants to try a pre-built binary for Win32: http://bolka.at/2012/rebol3/r3-3.1-76a02f7.exe Also, let me remind you of pre-built binaries for OSX and Linux: http://bolka.at/2012/rebol3/r3-2.5-62ec41f (OSX Intel) http://bolka.at/2012/rebol3/r3-4.4-62ec41f   (Linux)

Looks like the nearly unthinkable has finally happened .. and just in time for Xmas.  Carl has now released the R3 sources on Github https://github.com/rebol/r3 There's going to be a flurry of activity as people try to port to their favorite platforms ... and hopefully someone will step up to lead this project since Carl lacks the time.  People have reported compiling the sources on OSX so far.

Rebol3 Open Source Announcement!  Carl has announced his intention of open source the Rebol3 source.  License provisionally is to be GPL2

I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new Year. I will not continue to publish on "The Rebol Week" blog. I will concentrate on " Red Chronicle " brand and continue to support DocKimbel's project : Red programming language Nicolas

"I have some knews regarding R3. In the last two days I had longer calls with Carl and decided how to move R3 forward. This is how it will be done: - The RMA team will help to get some burden from Carl's shoulder and work on open issues. This will be setup in that we get partial access to the necessary code parts and can work on these. - We are going to extend our internal testing infrastructure etc on these new R3 releases and run it against our applications we crate - Carl and I will have regular calls to discuss the status and things where we need his advise etc. So, to keep the loop closed and gain more speed - I will meet with Carl in person on 23rd Juli to discuss further things - Unitil that we want to get most administrative setup done, so that we are ready to go We are going to drive the priorities by the things RMA needs. This shouldn't be a problem for anyone because if you are going to use R3 for serious development than you will need it as well. The thing is, ...

A Rebol and Red Users Group took place in Lille, north of France : Cht'i RUG 2011 . DocKimbel presenting Cheyenne REBOL web server During this event DocKimbel has presented his REBOL Web server called Cheyenne . And of course, his new project called Red : a new programming language. -Nicolas