I looked more into R3 hostkit ... we are zillion years away from the keep it simple phylosophy that's sad ... what ever the api is with such a mixed thing you can't expect Carl more than 10 people around the world to use it ...
Sorry if i'm rude but i say the things as they appears to me i'm the first in commenting this subject anyway in more than a month proof that most of the people around just don't give a damn about it ...
R3 hostkit would be in my opinion more easy to understand if the inner inherence hierarchy was made more clear ... what caused me problems was to identify how the rebol part is linked to the C part... how rebol use code described in the C files? things like that i'm not good at explaining that but that's my feeling.
the community's answer to this was: http://isitruby19.com/
it tracked how ruby libraries are catching up with these changes.
for me it took ~2hrs to make a ~200 file rails app compatible with it.
i wouldn't worry much about such api changes. there are a lot of capable ppl in the software communities.
Well i don't know the details but i think as you did carl an the r3lib should have some "access" features and allowing to keep a certain degree of interfacing while at same time allowing the bellow API to evolve.
After that as i said i don't know the details the R3 is still in R3 so if you do have to make an evolving API that's noW ...
i'm agree and that's what i try to speak with the community those past days/weeks. actually the R3 GUI effort is based on an effort based upon some money raised without knowing clearly what is the task due for that money. And for the future what will be the outcomes of having outside people taking in ostage the project because they claim loans for the project to evolve.
Having the need to ressort to the king dollar as ultimate mean of presure to put at work our lazy comunity is not a good sign sent to the world... and it's not a setup for futur, for a proper design.
when i try to get informations or a serious discution about those aspect all I get are insults. the Gurus are being arrogant and overtaking the project...(by the way i didn't knew robert Münch could lead anything regarding rebol's VID... so if the architect don't know how to build a house how will he ensure us that it's crew won't build the house upside down)
Those gurus are liying to us by saying this way is the only affortable way to make R3 GUI project go on.
I like the fact VID is externalised in hostkit but instead of being the base of a new mature motion in our dieing community on educational level and being inspired to build the new vid in commun based on those 10 past years of experience thank to those undelicate avid of financial profit autoproclaimed Gurus it will be the swarn song for rebol.
