[DGD]Object manager released

[Stephen Schmidt]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Felix A. Croes wrote:
> It depends on how <long> you want to run your garden-variety mud.
> If you don't want to reboot when a change is made in a basic
> inherited object that would break compatibility because the
> old and new instances of the object use a different interface,
> then something like the object manager comes in handy.

That makes sense. Everyone who's ever run a garden-variety
mud is used to having to reboot when you upgrade user.c or
other important file; our experience is blinding us to a
Better Way of doing things.

All the more reason why a native mudlib ought to be created
at some point....
 
> Melville is a very small mud, prividing a basis similar to
> 2.4.5 but much smaller and easier to customize.  The kernel
> library is all about managing coding projects, users, and
> resources -- and is not in the least mud-like.

With most of this, I certainly concur. I might suggest that
the last phrase read "is not in the least game-like." Those
who are interested in redefining the term "mud" to include
projects that are not games - and I'm in that category at
some level - might argue that the kernel lib is "mud-like"
in the sense of providing a multi-user creative environment,
even though it's not a game environment. Melville is not
really a game environment either, although it can easily
be extended to one (and that's one of two things it's
intended for).
 
> The kernel library didn't exist yet in 1995 :)  The driver object
> that you copied code from is from the 2.4.5 simulation code,
> presumably.  The kernel library's driver object is entirely
> different code.

Hm. I confess that I have no memory of what I did five years ago.
In the meantime, let me quote from the Melville Credits file:

: All of the code in the Melville mudlib was written by Stephen Schmidt
: (Mobydick) with the exception of some code in the auto object, driver
: object, and user object which was written by Felix Croes (Dworkin)
: and made available as part of the DGD 1.0.a6 release.

I don't think that DGD 1.0.a6 included the 2.4.5 lib, but
maybe I'm wrong; was there something that might have been
a precursor of the kernal lib included with 1.0.a6?
 
Steve
 

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the next killer app in his garage in Kenosha and Microsoft won't own it."
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