I'm drawing a blank here so perhaps someone can refresh my old tired 
brain.  Exactly what is meant by the "orxscript extension"?

Mark Miesfeld wrote:
> As I'm sure anyone reading this knows, the next official release of
> ooRexx is going to be 4.0.0.  A major release with a big internal code
> improvement, but also quite a bit of new stuff at the user level.
> 
> And, I'm sure everyone is aware we haven't had an official release
> since last November.  We'd all like to get the release out the door.
> There still is significant documentation and testing to be done, but I
> think we can see the light at the end of the tunnel there.
> 
> However, there is one large item that remains undone.  The orxscript
> extension is currently turned off in the build because it has not been
> updated and is not currently working.  Getting it ready to go, I
> think, will take a significant amount of time.
> 
> So, I'm going to float this idea / proposal to the list, see what others 
> think.
> 
> I think it is quite possible that a lot of people / users would rather
> see 4.0.0 released sooner with orxscript support turned off than wait,
> what will surely be an added 3 months or so, for 4.0.0 with orxscript.
>  Then we could commit to getting a minor release with orxcript turned
> back on as quickly as possible.  Probably commit to not start any new
> work and just focus on orxscript until that minor release was done.
> 
> I anticipate that the minor release could be done about 3 months after
> the major 4.0.0 release.  Chances are good that we would also have a
> few bug fixes in that minor release, making it a good general release.
>  Not just a Windows update.
> 
> I'd like to know what people think about this.  I'll float it by
> RexxLA after / if there is a consensus here that it is acceptable.
> 
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> Mark Miesfeld
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