Stef, I don't dispute it, but what is this about Croquet being dead?
Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:22 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Sideways marketing of pharo, seaside, etc. On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Lawson English wrote: > Hey all, I'm in one of my manic brainstorming moods and whilest I'm > working on a baby interface between Second Life and Squeak, it dawns > on me that there is a huge potential for evangelicalism on your part > here: > One of hte myriad complains Second LIfe power users have is that the > build-in programming tools are extremely limited. There are numerous > options for plugins as with Eclipse and emacs (I believe) but they all > run as standalone tools with no easy integration with the 3D virtual > world experience, which is hte main reason why people bother to script > things in SL in the first place: they have interactive feedback with > potentialky thousands of other people. > > The point being that seaside runs just fine on localhost and the > builtin SL browser works just fine with everything seaside I have > tested. what do you mean by the previous sentence? > If someone wanted to entice potentially 100,000 Second LIfe users to > install seaside, implementing a nice LSL scripting interface in a > seaside webpage, complete with syntax coloring, databases of scripts, > version control, etc etc, would go a long way toards convincing the > Second Life powerusers, at least, that seaside is a worthwhile > install. > > If/when I get my interface to the client-server packets proxy working, > one could see potential for many more elaborate uses for squeak/ > seaside and Second LIfe. Keep us informed it looks exciting. > (interop between SL and Cobalt/Croquet is left as an exercise for the > reader ;-)) I thought Croquet was dead as an open-source project. > Anyway, if someone with a talent for writing editor code wanted to > look at the existing external LSL scripting editors and port something > to squeak for use on a webpage in seaside, I can almost promise you > that squeak/seaside useage would go up by a huge, HUGE factor. Such a > project is beyond me, personally due to my lack of formal education, > etc., but it should be a worthy project for anyone wishing to promote > seaside/smalltalk use. May be this is a nice job for helvetia. Lukas? mixing SL in Smalltalk :) > Feel free to ask any questions, privately if appropriate. > > Lawson English LEnglish5 (at) cox [dot] net Saijanai Kuhn in Second > Life > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
