[vos-d] progress and planning

[Peter Amstutz]

The mailing list has gone quiet again, but that doesn't mean nothing is 
happening.  I am presently working on the new UI prototype for VOS, which is 
shaping up quite nicely.  The general plan going forward is:

a) Finish the UI prototype.  This has taken longer than I expected due to a 
combination of technical issues and having implemented a lot more ideas than I 
had originally.  I'm hoping to be done with this in the next week or two.

b) Create installer packages.  I want to have one-click install packages for 
Windows, OS X and one or two Linux distributions.

c) Release, and discuss the merits of the UI.  It won't be particularly 
functional but it should give a pretty good sense of how you might use it and 
(for editing actions) what the workflow will be like.

d) Turn our attention to the backend.  I'll build on the s5 work I started last 
year, so hopefully I can put something together relatively quickly.  My goal is 
to have a somewhat faster release cycle with the backend work, perhaps having a 
new release as major features (scripting, saving and loading, networking) 
are landed.

e) Implement demos.  Actually, we should start thinking about this even now.

I've been thinking more about the big picture functionality, and I've decided 
that I want to focus on the simulation side aspects in a 3D environment.  That 
is, to have a framework that makes it easy to create a virtual world, add some 
agents (avatars, NPCs, whatever you want to call them) and then push play.  
The goal will be to address the needs both of games/entertainment (which are 
essentially discrete event simulations, albiet with rules that are 
intentionally unrealistic) and more serious applications such as AI and 
robotics research.

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Re: [vos-d] progress and planning

[Marcos Marado]

Hi there, and thanks for the update.

On Tuesday 25 September 2007 18:28, Peter Amstutz wrote:
 b) Create installer packages.  I want to have one-click install packages
 for Windows, OS X and one or two Linux distributions.

For the Linux packages, please go to Debian and Fedora. Those two are probably 
the best two plataforms to release the most clean .deb/.rpm packages for 
others to be able to repackage them for their own distribution.

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Re: [vos-d] progress and planning

[Peter Amstutz]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 07:44:04PM +0100, Marcos Marado wrote:
 Hi there, and thanks for the update.
 
 On Tuesday 25 September 2007 18:28, Peter Amstutz wrote:
  b) Create installer packages.  I want to have one-click install packages
  for Windows, OS X and one or two Linux distributions.
 
 For the Linux packages, please go to Debian and Fedora. Those two are 
 probably 
 the best two plataforms to release the most clean .deb/.rpm packages for 
 others to be able to repackage them for their own distribution.

As I noted in the other mail, I'm looking into using the epm tool 
(http://www.epmhome.org) so we only have to maintain a single script to be able 
to build binary packages for multiple distributions (including both deb and rpm 
based distros).

I personally use amd64 Debian, so I can generate 32 and 64 bit x86 deb packages 
pretty easily.  To support Fedora, I'll need to set up another partition, or 
maybe a virtual machine.  Hmm.

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