Re: [Oorexx-devel] Spec #1 (Re: Also how about a startup option for options? (Re: Dynamic version of ::options ?

2025-10-03 Thread Gilbert Barmwater via Oorexx-devel
mention should disappear.   Josep Maria Missatge de Gilbert Barmwater via Oorexx-devel del dia dv., 3 d’oct. 2025 a les 18:49: Just a heads up based on my experience w/ the Package class.  Creating an instance of .package ALWAYS* causes the code in it to execute immediately.  T

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Spec #1 (Re: Also how about a startup option for options? (Re: Dynamic version of ::options ?

2025-10-03 Thread Gilbert Barmwater via Oorexx-devel
Just a heads up based on my experience w/ the Package class. Creating an instance of .package ALWAYS* causes the code in it to execute immediately.  This includes both the New method and the LoadPackage method (and probably LoadLibrary). *If the target file or source array has an ::option nopro

Re: [Oorexx-devel] [rexxla-members] New net-oo-rexx packages available (Windows, MacOS, Linux)

2025-09-07 Thread Gilbert Barmwater via Oorexx-devel
Just a quick question.  In the past I have installed this package and found it very useful.  I'd like to stay current with this version as I'm sure it has lots of improvements 🙂.  Is there an "update" procedure for "replacing" an older version with the latest one or am I better off deleting the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Question ad a hang situation

2025-08-13 Thread Gilbert Barmwater via Oorexx-devel
WOW! Unbelievable that AI could do that, at least to me.  If most of that is, in fact, meaningful - and I have no way of knowing if it is or isn't, way over my head - this is a significant addition to the ability to debug complex code problems.  I have my fingers crossed that this will help Ron

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Latest Build

2025-05-31 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
test so the uploader is redirected for the moment. Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, ooRexx oor...@jonases.se Am 31.05.2025 um 15:31 schrieb Gilbert Barmwater : It seems that the build for Windows 64-bit did not get uploaded on the last revision 12290.  Can someone have a look at the logs? Thanks

[Oorexx-devel] Latest Build

2025-05-31 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
It seems that the build for Windows 64-bit did not get uploaded on the last revision 12290.  Can someone have a look at the logs? Thanks, -- Gil Barmwater ___ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net

[Oorexx-devel] Interesting post on the Discussion list

2025-05-11 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I just read an interesting post on the oorexx:discussion list that I wanted to make sure the developers saw.  It was titled "Faster (esp. Windows) builds using ninja with CMake" and was posted by Dom Wise who gave us the Debugger. -- Gil Barmwater ___

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Release preparations for ooRexx

2025-04-29 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
afternoon so I cannot respond to any urgent  business until late in the afternoon. Just a heads-up. Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, ooRexx oor...@jonases.se Am 29.04.2025 um 19:24 schrieb Gilbert Barmwater : Hi P.O., Just a small note re. the copyright notice in the various books.  For books like

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Release preparations for ooRexx

2025-04-29 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Hi P.O., Just a small note re. the copyright notice in the various books. For books like RexxRef, the line Copyright © 2005-2024 Rexx Language Association. All rights reserved. is generated from the Legal_Notice.xml file which is in the "common" folder "oorexx" and which uses the entity file

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad preparing the general availability version for ooRexx 5.1.0

2025-04-25 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
ld there be unfinished work items, someone else can open new bug reports/RFEs and address them in a future release. Thanks for reading this far and, perhaps we can continue this discussion next week in Vienna over a beer! Gil On 4/25/2025 5:24 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On 24.04.2025 21:29, Gilb

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad preparing the general availability version for ooRexx 5.1.0

2025-04-24 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I don't believe we have enough time to make this happen, however "nice" it would be.  A quick check of SF bugs shows 141 "open" tickets!  Now, assuming some of those could be "skipped", it still will take a LOT of time to review them and decide what "really" should be fixed before we release a

Re: [Oorexx-devel] RFC: suggesting new methods for .Stem and .Array

2025-03-17 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Thanks to both Rony and Jean-Louis for your comments.  Here are some additional thoughts I've had as a result. When the problem to be solved is converting one type of ordered collection to another, as it was when I started working on this, then the overriding principle is maintaining the order

Re: [Oorexx-devel] RFC: suggesting new methods for .Stem and .Array

2025-03-15 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Many years ago, I saw the same need but in a more general context, converting an instance of an ordered collection to a different collection type.  And, yes, I know that stems are NOT ordered collections! The .list, .queue, .circularqueue (and .array) all have a makearray method.  So the first

Re: [Oorexx-devel] RFC: suggesting new methods for .Stem and .Array

2025-03-12 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
es = .xrray~from(nm.)   to go the other direction Questions and comments are encouraged. Gil On 3/11/2025 9:25 PM, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: This project started many years ago - the earliest file I have located was dated 21 Sept. 2009 - and was initially only concerned with converting o

Re: [Oorexx-devel] RFC: suggesting new methods for .Stem and .Array

2025-03-11 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
ctionality requested in the original post, I offer it as a way to not "reinvent the wheel" so to speak.  In my next post, I will include the code for the two 'from' methods and provide some (additional) comments on how it works and some examples of its use.  Stay tuned...

Re: [Oorexx-devel] #1251 crash setWindowPos

2025-03-11 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I suggest that Steffan be contacted and then just close the ticket unless he can replicate the problem on today's code base. Gil On 3/10/2025 5:49 PM, Sahananda wrote: No one was able to replicate this problem.  Staffan who posted it experienced it irregularly and Mark could not experience it a

Re: [Oorexx-devel] RFC: suggesting new methods for .Stem and .Array

2025-03-11 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
On 3/10/2025 1:00 PM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Hi Gil, On 09.03.2025 14:45, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Many years ago, I saw the same need but in a more general context, converting an instance of an ordered collection to a different collection type.  And, yes, I know that stems are NOT

Re: [Oorexx-devel] RFC: suggesting new methods for .Stem and .Array

2025-03-11 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Thanks for the interest in my approach.  My plan is to post the code - two class methods, both named 'from' - to this list with a better description of where they are added and some examples of how one might use this functionality.  I'm hoping to do so later today depending on the time I have a

Re: [Oorexx-devel] #1251 crash setWindowPos

2025-03-11 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
...@jonases.se Am 10.03.2025 um 23:20 schrieb Gilbert Barmwater : I suggest that Steffan be contacted and then just close the ticket unless he can replicate the problem on today's code base.  Gil On 3/10/2025 5:49 PM, Sahananda wrote: No one was able to replicate this pr

Re: [Oorexx-devel] RFC: suggesting new methods for .Stem and .Array

2025-03-09 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Small typo in original:  should be .array~from(a.)   GB - Many years ago, I saw the same need but in a more general context, converting an instance of an ordered collection to a different collection type.  And, yes, I know that

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad open items ... (Re: Open Items from 5.0.0

2025-03-07 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
If I do not hear any objections in the next couple of days to my suggestions to simply Close certain items, I will do so.  Gil Thanks for taking the time on this Rony.  I have added my thoughts to yours below. On 3/6/2025 6:25 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Terry, thank you for resending this

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad open items ... (Re: Open Items from 5.0.0

2025-03-07 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Thanks for taking the time on this Rony.  I have added my thoughts to yours below. On 3/6/2025 6:25 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Terry, thank you for resending this! In the meantime I took the time to go through all of the listed items (quite time consuming). Here explicitly listed with my

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Thank you! (Re: Jenkins

2025-02-18 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
On 2/17/2025 3:59 PM, ooRexx wrote: RE Am 17.02.2025 um 19:35 schrieb Gilbert Barmwater : Are the Windows builds the only ones that include the documentation? On the contrary, we are building all platforms with documentation :-) As for the target for a new release, there were a number of

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Thank you! (Re: Jenkins

2025-02-17 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
rds/Grüsse, P.O. Jonsson oor...@jonases.se Am 17.02.2025 um 16:05 schrieb Gilbert Barmwater : +1 Just one (slightly) negative note however.  The Windows builds include the documentation (PDFs) which is retrieved from the most recently built versions. If one updates the documentation AFTER

Re: [Oorexx-devel] some benchmarks of Open Object Rexx Version 5 with Windows 10, Windows 11 and Open Suse Operating Systems

2025-02-17 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
On 2/17/2025 12:52 PM, Franz Marx wrote: Hello all friends of Open Rexx! I wrote a Rexx-Program to calculate Primes to use for benchmarking 1. Object Rexx Version`s performance 2. Operation System`s performance 3. the Hardware performance My Rexx-Program works really simple (I'm not a mathemati

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Thank you! (Re: Jenkins

2025-02-17 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
05 AM, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: +1 Just one (slightly) negative note however.  The Windows builds include the documentation (PDFs) which is retrieved from the most recently built versions.  If one updates the documentation AFTER committing the code changes, the documents will be rebuilt AFTE

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Thank you! (Re: Jenkins

2025-02-17 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
+1 Just one (slightly) negative note however.  The Windows builds include the documentation (PDFs) which is retrieved from the most recently built versions.  If one updates the documentation AFTER committing the code changes, the documents will be rebuilt AFTER the new builds are made and, he

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Downloading documentation on Windows, preparing for a release

2025-01-18 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Hi P.O., Would it be possible to see the downloaddocs.bat script?  Perhaps there is something in the environment that is different while running the script as opposed to running the command directly. Unfortunately I can not try to duplicate this problem as I don't have wget installed but if I

[Oorexx-devel] Jenkins Activity

2025-01-17 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I just noticed a lot of build activity going on, some of which seems suspect (old revision numbers).  Is there an explanation for what is going on? -- Gil Barmwater ___ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sour

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad creating a release of ooRexx 5.1.0, please give feedback

2024-12-21 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Well, another year has gone by since this was last proposed and to my knowledge, we still have NOT addressed the "unfinished business" left over from the 5.0.0 release, namely the bug fixes and RFEs that were never officially closed.  From my post of 29 Nov 2023: "I guess I need to refresh eve

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 5.1.0 and labels - a RFC

2024-10-26 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
s "take".  "Belling the cat" at run-time sounds like a non-trivial effort. -Chip- On 10/25/2024 9:35 AM, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: I've read all the comments (so far) on this and the ones that had the most impact on my opinion were Mike's - "...i

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 5.1.0 and labels - a RFC

2024-10-25 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I've read all the comments (so far) on this and the ones that had the most impact on my opinion were Mike's - "...it's the attempt to branch to them that should be flagged, not the label itself, which is just a label." - and Jeremy's - "Some users might be running code that they don't have sourc

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Strange behavior

2024-10-14 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
ction containing method objects/source and their names also doesn't allow s. to have additional  methods added to it. FWIW Gil On 10/14/2024 1:41 PM, Rick McGuire wrote: Stem assignment is documented in section 1.13.4 of the Reference. Rick On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 1:11 PM Gilbert Barmwat

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Strange behavior

2024-10-14 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
t a subclass. Your stem subclass got assigned as the default value of the stem variable, not as the base stem object. Rick On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 12:06 PM Gilbert Barmwater wrote:   I need some help in understanding the behavior of the following code. It creates two subcla

[Oorexx-devel] Strange behavior

2024-10-14 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
 I need some help in understanding the behavior of the following code.  It creates two subclasses, one of List and one of Stem, that inherit from a mixin class which adds a single method named Count.  I would expect that method  to behave the same for instances of either subclass but it does no

Re: [Oorexx-devel] How about adding class methods arrayIn and arrayOut on the Stream class ?

2024-06-16 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
On 6/16/2024 1:57 PM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: On Sun, 16 Jun 2024, at 13:42, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: But it doesn't close the file.  And there is no way to close it after that statement since there is no reference to the stream object.  Now, in most cases, not closing the stream is not a pr

Re: [Oorexx-devel] How about adding class methods arrayIn and arrayOut on the Stream class ?

2024-06-16 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
later in the program, having the stream still open is problematic, no? Gil On 6/15/2024 8:02 PM, Rick McGuire wrote: Um, a = .stream~new(filename)~arrayin is a one liner that reads into an array. Rick On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 7:50 PM Gilbert Barmwater wrote: First let me offer the foll

Re: [Oorexx-devel] How about adding class methods arrayIn and arrayOut on the Stream class ?

2024-06-15 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
First let me offer the following way to write the contents of an array to a stream that only requires a single  line: .stream~new(streamFileName)~~arrayOut(arr [,Lines|Chars])~close Unfortunately, there is no corresponding "one-liner" for reading the contents of a stream into an array.  This l

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Another question

2024-06-03 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
nceMethods() method to retrieve them. Rick On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 3:17 PM Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Let's say there is a class defined via ::class myClass.  It has numerous methods, both instance methods and class methods. If I want to enumerate the instance methods,

[Oorexx-devel] Another question

2024-06-03 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Let's say there is a class defined via ::class myClass.  It has numerous methods, both instance methods and class methods. If I want to enumerate the instance methods, supp = .myClass~methods will give me a supplier that will do so.  If I specify supp = .myClass~methods(.nil), the supplied list

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Clarification on .package~new

2024-06-03 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
dependent on the basic structure of the program not changing but I don't have any "extra" files being created. Hopefully this explanation will help someone in the future faced with a similar situation. Gil On 6/1/2024 10:38 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On 31.05.2024 20:29, Gilb

[Oorexx-devel] Clarification on .package~new

2024-05-31 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I've been experimenting with the .package class and have run into somewhat puzzling behavior.  I am trying to create a .package object from a file which, according to the documentation, should look like this: thePkg=.package~new(fileName) When I do this I DO get a package in thePkg, BUT the pa

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Preparing for the next release

2024-04-20 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Hi P.O., I noticed from the recent SVN activity that all of the 5.1.0 documents had been rebuilt.  Was this intentional or an artifact of your testing?  Just curious 🙂. Gil On 4/20/2024 8:42 AM, ooRexx wrote: On 20. Apr 2024, at 13:34, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Hi P.O., thank you for y

Re: [Oorexx-devel] One more trace entry for exiting a routine or method with a trace prefix of

2024-04-09 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Actually, I believe that the documentation is inaccurate.  If one specifies TRACE L, ooRexx "Traces method and routine invocations, internal subroutine calls, transfers of control because of the SIGNAL instruction, and labels passed during program execution.". So the >I> entry also appears for

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Universal package and rexx.img

2024-01-13 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Feel free to ignore this as I am NOT a MacOS user.  I feel that having 2 packages is the more straightforward way to proceed rather than continuing with the complexity of a universal package even though that may be "common" on the MacOS platform.  My 2 cents, FWIW. Gil On 1/13/2024 2:12 PM, o

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Planned additions, release of ooRexx 5.1 ?

2023-11-29 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
e to do a bug-fix release - 5.0.1 - or a new feature release - 5.1.0 - it is time to clean up this "unfinished business". On 11/29/2023 7:11 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On 24.11.2023 01:05, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: If the consensus is to do this, can we make a concerted eff

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Planned additions, release of ooRexx 5.1 ?

2023-11-23 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
If the consensus is to do this, can we make a concerted effort to get the bugs and RFEs that were in 5.0.0 but were not marked as "pending" - usually as "accepted" - finally to a finished state, namely "pending"?  There has been a good amount of work on this but I'd really want to see ALL of th

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Jenkins

2023-10-28 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
OK, great!  Thanks Rony! On 10/28/2023 9:23 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Gil, On 27.10.2023 17:19, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Glad to see that you are back "in the saddle" so to speak!  Rony and I have been working off-list to implement a mechanism to automate the updating of the i

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Jenkins

2023-10-27 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Hi P.O., Glad to see that you are back "in the saddle" so to speak!  Rony and I have been working off-list to implement a mechanism to automate the updating of the information in the "Edition" of each book.  I have done the change in the ooRexx version of the documentation build tools.  Rony

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Committing change

2023-09-22 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I support this as well +1 On 9/22/2023 4:26 PM, René Jansen wrote: +1 On 22 Sep 2023, at 19:55, Sahananda Sahananda wrote: Hi Terry, It looks like you are not a committer.  I believe that Erich as the project manager could convey that right on you.  In the old days that would follow a po

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx documentation for 5.10 beta ?

2023-08-26 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I suspect that the problem resides with the build process for the Windows installer - NSIS.  It incorporates the PDF documentation into the .exe file and should be using the files from .../oorexx-docs/5.1.0beta/.  Although that directory now contains new versions of the PDFs, the r12722 Windows

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Latest Builds

2023-06-16 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
And all is good.  Was able to download and install 12694 successfully. Gil On 6/16/2023 11:34 AM, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: I think it is resolved by updating Windows Defender.  Once 12694 builds I'll try it again.  Thanks, GB On 6/16/2023 11:29 AM, P.O. Jonsson wrote: Hi Gil, J

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Latest Builds

2023-06-16 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
e not yet on Sourceforge. Please provide the revision and any additional information like what antivirus software you are using and I will have a check also Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, P.O. Jonsson oor...@jonases.se Am 16.06.2023 um 15:49 schrieb Gilbert Barmwater : Has anyone had any su

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Latest Builds

2023-06-16 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
12583 => 12693  on Windows 11.  Usually the first time I click "run anyway" it silently terminates the process without running.  This time it installed first time. Jon On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 at 15:20, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Has anyone had any success in down

[Oorexx-devel] Latest Builds

2023-06-16 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Has anyone had any success in downloading the latest Windows 64-bit build?  I tried to update twice this morning and got messages that the file couldn't be downloaded because it had a virus.  Now I normally have to jump through hoops anyway because Windows tells me that the file isn't normally

Re: [Oorexx-devel] [oorexx:bugs] #1897 Entry missing in Windows installer

2023-05-10 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
On 5/10/2023 1:27 PM, Rick McGuire wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 12:22 PM ooRexx wrote: I am sorry but I have to come back to this item: What is the difference between the milestones 5.0.0, 5.0.1 and 5.1.0? That indicates which release the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Conventions

2023-04-14 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I think this needs more discussion before making, what seems on the surface to be, a "trivial" change. When RexxLA received the source for Object Rexx from IBM, there was quite a bit of discussion on what the project should be called with the eventual decision being "ooRexx".  I'm sure the arc

Re: [Oorexx-devel] A thought on multi-threaded tracing.

2023-04-03 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
So it turns out that under Windows, it is easy to obtain the thread ID of the current running code.  My framework now does that so it might be of use, as is, to anyone needing to know which thread executed the line being traced.  Gil On 4/1/2023 5:01 PM, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Well, FWIW, I

Re: [Oorexx-devel] A thought on multi-threaded tracing.

2023-04-01 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Well, FWIW, I thought so too.  Just for fun I have implemented a working framework of what I described later in this thread.  Of course, even though it can modify the trace output, it does not actually put the "real" values in as that would require either the modifications to the .stackframe cl

Re: [Oorexx-devel] A thought on multi-threaded tracing.

2023-03-25 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
On 3/25/2023 11:58 AM, Rick McGuire wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 11:52 AM Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Let me see if I've got this.  If there was a class, perhaps a subclass of outputStream, that implemented a SAY method which would "collect" the a

Re: [Oorexx-devel] A thought on multi-threaded tracing.

2023-03-25 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Let me see if I've got this.  If there was a class, perhaps a subclass of outputStream, that implemented a SAY method which would "collect" the additional multi-threading information and add it to the argument that it receives, then one would only need to create an instance of that class associ

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Musings with tracing multithreaded ooRexx programs, mt91.rex: on two Rexx interpreter instances (RII)

2023-02-15 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Not being a user who writes multi-threaded ooRexx programs, I have remained silent until now.  However, it seems to me that there are enough objections to the proposal that would add this to TRACE that we should consider alternatives. I appreciate the need for the information and the work done

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Request for fast help on finally resolving 5.0.0 related open partial tracker items ...

2023-02-06 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
On 2/6/2023 6:50 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Hi Jon, On 05.02.2023 22:34, Sahananda Sahananda wrote: I have updated and committed the xml file.  I think that now an automatic rebuild of the documentation will be triggered.  Is that right? Not sure. An automatic build gets triggered if code ch

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Problem with bldoc_orx/docprep.rex

2023-02-05 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Thanks for the report Rony.  I will investigate the problem and report back as time permits. Gil On 2/5/2023 7:53 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: This is mostly addressed to Gil. Using your latest drop of bldoc_orx (currently on Windows), trying to create the rexxextensions book. Before doing

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad svn revision number ...

2023-01-25 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
+1 Gil B. On 1/25/2023 9:42 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: The examples were taken after having done an "svn update" in "main/trunk", but not in "docs/trunk" and "test/trunk". After doing a "svn update" over the entire project the "Revision" field carries the same number for all three directo

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad Commons_Content directory (Re: More info on Jenkins

2023-01-04 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
problem with using my docbuild tools on Ubuntu, they used to work but when I retry them now they do not work. Could be the same problem. Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, P.O. Jonsson oor...@jonases.se Am 03.01.2023 um 23:04 schrieb Gilbert Barmwater : Thanks for catching this Rony!  I will inv

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad Commons_Content directory (Re: More info on Jenkins

2023-01-03 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Thanks for catching this Rony!  I will investigate as I have time along with the problem with setup.rex on Windows using a non-existent FOP mirror. Gil On 1/3/2023 12:32 PM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On 03.01.2023 15:00, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: While being there we should also consider to

Re: [Oorexx-devel] More info on Jenkins

2023-01-03 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
See below; trimmed some of the post... On 1/3/2023 11:36 AM, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: I hope to reply specifically later today.  GB On 1/3/2023 10:02 AM, P.O. Jonsson wrote: Dear Gil and Rony, I have responded to your comments below. Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, P.O. Jonsson oor...@jonases.se

Re: [Oorexx-devel] More info on Jenkins

2023-01-03 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I hope to reply specifically later today.  GB On 1/3/2023 10:02 AM, P.O. Jonsson wrote: Dear Gil and Rony, I have responded to your comments below. Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, P.O. Jonsson oor...@jonases.se Am 03.01.2023 um 15:00 schrieb Gilbert Barmwater : I was going to reply to the OP

Re: [Oorexx-devel] More info on Jenkins

2023-01-03 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I was going to reply to the OP that I saw last night but then I saw this reply from Rony so I have added my comments below. On 1/3/2023 5:44 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Thank you (and also Gil) for all of your efforts! On 03.01.2023 00:18, ooRexx wrote: My attempt to always have the document

Re: [Oorexx-devel] At the end of the 5.0.0 release cycle and beyond ...

2023-01-01 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
See below... On 1/1/2023 6:38 PM, ooRexx wrote: On 1. Jan 2023, at 17:43, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Brief info on today's work: * updating the tickets from "pending" and "accepted" with no open items to "closed": did not write a utility after finding out about "bulk-edit", all four

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Release 5.0.0

2022-12-31 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Just a thought but didn't we start with our code in CVS rather than SVN? Perhaps that is why 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 are missing. Gil On 12/31/2022 12:14 PM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On 30.12.2022 13:21, ooRexx wrote: - Sourceforge could bring most of the documentation back, 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 I extrac

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Release of ooRexx 5

2022-12-28 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
, much of it unseen by the development community! I note everything for the next time we intend to do a release For information Jenkins is now on the latest LTS release version, 2.375.1 Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, P.O. Jonsson oor...@jonases.se On 28. Dec 2022, at 15:40, Gilbert Barmwater

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Release of ooRexx 5

2022-12-28 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
it later tonight. Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, ooRexx oor...@jonases.se On 26. Dec 2022, at 02:04, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: I have 4.2.0 for Windows 64 bit installed which has the included PDFs.  Let me know if you need them. Gil On 12/25/2022 6:03 PM, ooRexx wrote: I have some god news and some ba

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad changing ticket states

2022-12-26 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Well, I figured the ones I opened should be closed by me so I did.  I also did RFE 4 since I was heavily involved in making that happen.  I did them manually but as there are so many others remaining perhaps we should look at automating the process. Re the items with TODO's:  I have edited the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Release of ooRexx 5

2022-12-25 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
I have 4.2.0 for Windows 64 bit installed which has the included PDFs.  Let me know if you need them. Gil On 12/25/2022 6:03 PM, ooRexx wrote: I have some god news and some bad news The good news: FreeBSD is now revision 12583, I rebuilt it manually macOS is also 12583, but now with the corr

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:code-0] New commit [r12584] by orexx

2022-12-23 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Saw that new Windows builds were available so I downloaded the 64-bit version and installed it.  Works great and the docs are correct!  Well done everyone! Gil On 12/23/2022 11:45 AM, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Rony, P.O. indicated that he can trigger a build manually on Jenkins so it should

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:code-0] New commit [r12584] by orexx

2022-12-23 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Rony, P.O. indicated that he can trigger a build manually on Jenkins so it should NOT be necessary to do any further SVN updates.  FWIW, Gil On 12/23/2022 11:33 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On 23.12.2022 17:29, ooRexx wrote: Due to this unnecessary commit Windows and macOS are now getting a

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Current state, lists to write to (Re: Proposed text ...

2022-12-23 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Fix typo: "...you may consider to joining..." -> "... you may consider joining..." On 12/23/2022 8:52 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: First of all, thank you all for your feedback on the text! On 23.12.2022 14:41, Sahananda Sahananda wrote: Just a reminder, we have the ooRexx Announcements list

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Proposed text ...

2022-12-23 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Just a few minor language changes :-) general -> generally (first sentence) to join -> joining (paragraph near the bottom) Gil On 12/23/2022 7:46 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Here the proposed (it should not be too long, it should carry the most important information and make the readers inte

Re: [Oorexx-devel] docs/branches/5.0.0: updated copyright, added & committed "${book}/revision_info.txt", updated & commited EDITION entity; scripts checked in

2022-12-22 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, ooRexx oor...@jonases.se On 22. Dec 2022, at 23:18, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: So, as Jon has noted, on Windows the installer includes the documentation which will be the "current" set as of the time the Windows build is executed.  Now if one updates

Re: [Oorexx-devel] docs/branches/5.0.0: updated copyright, added & committed "${book}/revision_info.txt", updated & commited EDITION entity; scripts checked in

2022-12-22 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
ote: On 22.12.2022 19:10, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: If this is the final step, I think we should have P.O. build a new set of documents and upload them to sourceforge, replacing those that are there if possible.  Then I would encourage everyone on this list to retrieve them and review them for

Re: [Oorexx-devel] docs/branches/5.0.0: updated copyright, added & committed "${book}/revision_info.txt", updated & commited EDITION entity; scripts checked in

2022-12-22 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
If this is the final step, I think we should have P.O. build a new set of documents and upload them to sourceforge, replacing those that are there if possible.  Then I would encourage everyone on this list to retrieve them and review them for appearance at least.  Barring any really bad comment

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Another problem for the doc revision and a possible solution (Re: updateEntityValues with revision information

2022-12-22 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
do it every time we build the document. On 12/22/2022 11:52 AM, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Sorry I wasn't more clear in my final comments.  If one could determine the "real" dates, probably manually, and update and "commit" the values in the *.ent files, then the "aut

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Another problem for the doc revision and a possible solution (Re: updateEntityValues with revision information

2022-12-22 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
n the revision_info.txt files, all it would take is to go through them, update the *.ent files and commit the changes. Then the code in docprep.rex could be commented out.  Builds would then have the correct revision number and date. Gil On 12/22/2022 11:32 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Another problem for the doc revision and a possible solution (Re: updateEntityValues with revision information

2022-12-22 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
See below... On 12/22/2022 9:35 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On 22.12.2022 14:58, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Back in July (seems like years ago), I modified the ooRexx version of the document build tools.  As part of that effort, I did some work to have docprep.rex modify the VERSION and

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Another problem for the doc revision and a possible solution (Re: updateEntityValues with revision information

2022-12-22 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Back in July (seems like years ago), I modified the ooRexx version of the document build tools.  As part of that effort, I did some work to have docprep.rex modify the VERSION and EDITION ENTITIES "on the fly" (Note only in the working copy).  Have a look in the tools/bldoc_orx folder at docpre

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad state of docs/branches/5.0.0

2022-12-22 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
proposed by Rony. Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, ooRexx oor...@jonases.se On 22. Dec 2022, at 14:07, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: As I suspected, this fixed the problem! Good work! One reason I wanted to look at the HTML version was to see if the authors are listed on the title page there too. And they

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad state of docs/branches/5.0.0

2022-12-22 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
.  The bottom line is we don't need any changes for the HTML versions. Gil On 12/21/2022 7:15 PM, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: I'll have a look first thing in the AM.  I'm sure that this will fix the problem. I think documenting the dependency in the HowTo should be sufficient. And

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad state of docs/branches/5.0.0

2022-12-21 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
hould such changes be added to the release-steps.txt? They are not per see related to the new release. Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, ooRexx oor...@jonases.se On 21. Dec 2022, at 15:57, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Hi P.O., I saw new uploads of the Release Candidate documents so I tried downl

Re: [Oorexx-devel] pdf.xsl (Re: Going ahead with ... (Re: Documentation: remove author list from front page ?

2022-12-21 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Done for bldoc_rx.  Will also update the bldoc_win folder in both places as well. Gil On 12/21/2022 2:10 PM, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: OK, finally had a chance to look at the proposed 1 line change and to test it out and it looks good.  As this file has other modifications which are

Re: [Oorexx-devel] pdf.xsl (Re: Going ahead with ... (Re: Documentation: remove author list from front page ?

2022-12-21 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
OK, finally had a chance to look at the proposed 1 line change and to test it out and it looks good.  As this file has other modifications which are documented in sources.txt, I will update both files shortly and commit them to both trunk and branches. Gil On 12/20/2022 11:22 AM, Gilbert

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad state of docs/branches/5.0.0

2022-12-21 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
? Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, ooRexx oor...@jonases.se On 21. Dec 2022, at 16:27, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: +1 Thanks for investigating! On 12/21/2022 10:21 AM, ooRexx wrote: On 21. Dec 2022, at 15:57, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Hi P.O., I saw new uploads of the Release Candidate documents so I

Re: [Oorexx-devel] tools/bldoc_orx/setup.rex error, non existing server?

2022-12-21 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
When I first wrote setup.rex the goal was to make it easy for the new (Windows) user to get all the pieces needed to build the ooRexx documentation.  Most of those pieces were pretty straight forward as they were fairly static so coding web addresses and file names was not a problem.  FOP howev

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad state of docs/branches/5.0.0

2022-12-21 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
+1 Thanks for investigating! On 12/21/2022 10:21 AM, ooRexx wrote: On 21. Dec 2022, at 15:57, Gilbert Barmwater wrote: Hi P.O., I saw new uploads of the Release Candidate documents so I tried downloading the reexxref_html zip file to have a look. Although it downloads some 5.3Mb, when I

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad state of docs/branches/5.0.0

2022-12-21 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Hi P.O., I saw new uploads of the Release Candidate documents so I tried downloading the reexxref_html zip file to have a look. Although it downloads some 5.3Mb, when I attempt to look inside the downloaded file or extract all the pieces, I see an empty folder!  I'm on Windows 10 if that matt

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad state of docs/branches/5.0.0

2022-12-21 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Good morning!  I am planning on working on this today, I just need a little more time.  I will also look at the revision string question as well. Gil On 12/21/2022 6:21 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: Dear P.O., On 21.12.2022 09:45, ooRexx wrote: When I looked a bit closer I found the change :-)

Re: [Oorexx-devel] pdf.xsl (Re: Going ahead with ... (Re: Documentation: remove author list from front page ?

2022-12-20 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
Probably won't have time to do this until tomorrow. Gil On 12/20/2022 10:44 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: O.k. managed to cause the authors to not be included on the title page. For this to happen I had to change the pdf.xsl file which I attach for inspection: look for the needle "rgf 20221220"

Re: [Oorexx-devel] docs Re: Ad current release 5.0.0

2022-12-19 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
OK, that explains it. +1 On 12/19/2022 11:57 AM, Rick McGuire wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 11:54 AM Gilbert Barmwater wrote: OK, I can see that but in looking at the 4.2.0 Rexx Ref. document, I don't see them so I assumed they should go away.  Totally agree that they s

Re: [Oorexx-devel] docs Re: Ad current release 5.0.0

2022-12-19 Thread Gilbert Barmwater
it of anybody making the upgrade. However, removing them from the trunk version should be added to the release process checklist. Rick On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 10:13 AM Gilbert Barmwater wrote: I have downloaded and installed the 5.0.0 Release Candidate and noticed that the docs

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