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<LI><em>From</em>: Charles Hughes <<A HREF="mailto:charles.hughes#bigfoot,com">charles.hughes#bigfoot,com</A>></LI>
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On Friday, January 14, 2000 11:29 PM, J C Lawrence [SMTP:claw#kanga,nu]
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> Assuming the code actually works, there is a gang of people here at
> Cambridge threatening to write all the other bits. The division we see
> is roughly: socket code, database/memory management, parser, game
> mechanics.
> I expect the game mechanics stuff not to be under the LGPL, unlike the
> other bits. What's more important than the bits themselves is the
> interface between them. In particular, I think the best approach would be
> to see what can be taken OUT of a mud (socket stuff, database management)
> and separating that, rather than imposing some a priori design structure
> on the whole thing and then finding that it doesn't work (e.g., the way
> someone might want to implement an internal MUD language might cut
> across both parser and game mechanics...))
At the risk of being slapped by a mackerel, who here really thinks they
can do a better database design than those afforded by the likes of the
free or commercial databases? [I'll ask those here who've actually
worked on these databases not to chime in. :)]
It seems to me that segregating the database issues and then simply using
a database is far better than creating a new one. This would change
the "databases/memory management" division above into two divisions -
database usage, memory management.
Yes? No?
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00112" HREF="msg00112.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Databases</A></strong>,
Laurent Bossavit <a href="mailto:bossavit#cybercable,fr">bossavit#cybercable,fr</a>, Mon 17 Jan 2000, 23:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00113" HREF="msg00113.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Databases</A></strong>,
Dream Weaver at home <a href="mailto:windminstrel#home,net">windminstrel#home,net</a>, Tue 18 Jan 2000, 02:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00115" HREF="msg00115.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Databases</A></strong>,
Kevin Littlejohn <a href="mailto:darius#connect,com.au">darius#connect,com.au</a>, Tue 18 Jan 2000, 07:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00245" HREF="msg00245.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Databases</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00099" HREF="msg00099.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Databases (was Re: Commercial-use Restrictions on Code Bases)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00106" HREF="msg00106.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Databases (was Re: Commercial-use Restrictions on Code Bases)</A></strong>,
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