[DGD] Statedumps

[Felix A. Croes]

Ling <K.L.Lo-94 at student.lboro.ac.uk> wrote:

> Random thought for the month:  Would you think it'd be viable to
> distribute a mudlib as a statedump?  If so, what issues do I need to deal
> with?
>
> For example, a statedump distribution would require very configurable
> objects given that the source code cannot be modified.

Either that, or include the source in the statedump: the source for
every compiled object is stored in a source-database.  MOO and Cold
have the same functionality, but this would have the further advantage
that you could also save details of indentation, etc.  The automatic
swapfile compression of post-1.1 DGD will ensure that it will
actually take less space than having the source file on disk as a
separate file.

This is what I'm doing with my mudlib in development.

Dworkin