[DGD] DGD Coders woken up ? (Web page, interdgd, ftp and other stuff)

[Tim Blommerde]

Greetings readers,

Well, it seems the dgd list has been roused a bit.  Let's see if we can take
some advantage from the current activity on this list.  As I stated before
and regarding Mr. James Tait's message, I'd like to start a dgd web
site/page.  I'm by far no experienced html coder and not really into writing
www pages, but because I think there should be one dedicated to dgd and so
far noone of late has done so, I'd like to give it a go.  I definitely can't
do it without your help though, so please read through and mail me any
ideas, comments, flames and the like.

Here are some of the things I think should atleast be on it:
 * A page with the open dgd muds
      - Description of the mud
      - Link to the mud
      - Link to the mud's homepage
 * A page for dgd coders
      - Description of the person
      - Coding/Project history
      - Current projects
 * Download page
      - Latest official release of dgd driver
      - Latest beta release of dgd driver
      - Libs that can be used with dgd
      - Additional packages
 * Docs
      - How to start
      - The driver
 * Credits page
      - Some official thankings to Sir Dworkin, the people that helped him
      - Some official thankings to the people that wrote additional packages

These are just some quick ideas.  If you got something you'd like to see
besides the above mentioned things, please post them to the mailing list or
feel free to email me privately.  Besides ideas, if I'm really gonna go
through with this project and not someone else, I'd also need the following
things:
 * Experienced html coder(s)
 * Site to house the pages
 * Interesting dgd related texts
 * Nice art

Note that though I might seem a bit eager to start right away, I by no means
want to withhold other people from helping or even doing this project
without me.  I just would like to see the dgd people a bit more united and I
think that besides this mailing list, a web page where you can find nearly
everything and everyone related to dgd, would be really nice.  If others
think along these lines but either aren't in the position to do something or
don't feel like it, I will.  But if someone else wants to tackle this
project and create a dgd homepage/site, please do, so I can spend my
precious time on a few other projects.

Now that I've mentioned other projects, I'd like to hear your opinion on
something both some others and me have been mailing about these last two
days.  Namely intermud and ftp.  For as far as I've been able to deduct from
both mails send to me privately and mails on the mailing list in reply to my
question a few days earlier, there are already a few intermud daemons that
can be used with the dgd driver.  I believe all of those were derived from
the intermud3 protocol (the one by Deathblade, Beek and Rust).  I'm not
really familiar with that protocol, but I believe it's not as flexible as
the intermud protocol with that inetd (forgot its creator(s)).  Intermud3,
for as far as I know, makes use of router muds, right?  Well, here's what I
think - my opinion is based on my experience in coding on amylaar muds and
the general idea I got from leafing once through the standard lib that comes
with dgd.  I think it should be possible to write a new intermud daemon,
from scratch, that is tweaked for dgd muds.  One that doesn't make use of
router muds, but makes use of a mapping with the other muds in it, like the
intermud package that is based on the inetd file.  Besides that I also was
thinking on tackling the ftp daemon request by Ms. Stephanie Gilgut.  For as
far as I know there are indeed a few ftp daemons that run, in most cases,
seperately from the mud driver.  Why not write an ftp daemon in the lib
itself.  So people can, instead of connecting to the mud with a telnet or
mud client, connect to the mud with an ftp client and so download files,
upload ones etc.

Well, just some ideas and I'd like to hear your comments on it.  If you all
think it would kinda be a waste of time writing again a new intermud
protocol and a sort of ftp daemon, please tell me.  If you would like to see
the above because you still think the current protocols are rather lacky, or
not really satisfy your needs, mail me with what you'd like to see hints,
tips, ideas etc.

Well, I guess I should quite bothering you people by now.  This post has
grown a bit outta hand and I apologize for spamming your bandwidth with this
message (*smile*).  But for those who have come to this line, I'd like to
thank you for your interest and hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks for reading and have fun,
Tim


Ps. Mr. Ling, I'm thinking on starting a lib based on the lib that comes
with the dgd source too.  Though haven't found the time yet to start.  This
because my hd crash and an accident I had that made it impossible for me to
code for over a month.




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