A few points I'd overlooked earlier in this thread:
MAx: > btw, I realized that there was no more rebol.org rebsite... > maybe you guys could just include the one or two little apps you've > got for the rebol.org site there... really. Doing a REBOL.org rebsite is, I'm sure, going to happen one day. It would clearly make sense as a fourth way of accessing the REBOL.org content... The other three being: 1. from a web browser http://www.rebol.org 2. from the downloaded desktop Library application http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/download-librarian.r 3. from within any REBOL application using Library Data Services http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/documentation.r?script=lds-local.r I'll make sure it is on the list of Things to Do, but no promises on when :-) -- Brett: > For the prize, while I would be most honored and gratified to > receive such a magnificent gift, I fear the international voyage > this valuable item would take could be perilous and so it would > enough for me if you could find it an alternative worthy home. > Perhaps a local computing museum? :-) Given I got it second hand from a thrift shop, it probably lacks serious collectability for a museum....Maybe we'll have another competition sometime, and I'll reoffer it as something once briefly owned by Brett. Now that should give it some serious kudos :-) -- Robert: > Hi, than why not name it: fileset like it is on IOS? I don't like > word-fragmentation ;-) Choosing the right words for things is very important, I agree. Apologies if I've not choose exactly the right one. But "package" has a venerable history in this context -- at least 40 years, I'd guess. And fileset is not quite right either. An IOS fileset will synchronise both ways (you change the file, I get a new copy. I change the file, you get a new copy). A package is dumber than that. If I change a file in a package I own, the next time you download it, you will get the new copy. But, whatever you do to that copy -- short of emailing it to me -- I won't even know. The synchronisation is one way only. But yes, the IT world has way too many words for things that are almost the same. When I do mainframe work, I talk about "data sets whose content lives on DASD and are updated via access methods". When I work in REBOL it's "files on a hard disk updated via ports". Of course, a data set is not the same as a file, DASD is a wider concept than hard disk, and an access method is not the same as a port. But they are close enough not to really need different words. Sunanda -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
