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<H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud (was Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals)</H1>
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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud (was Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals)</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: James Wilson <<A HREF="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 05:31:22 -0400</LI>
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On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Niklas Elmqvist wrote:
>[Chris Gray:]
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>Or is there a better alternative to a message-based communication system
>like this? Anyone with more experience in these things than I?
Dunno if this helps - several years ago I implemented a bare-bones server
using dynamically-loaded native-code modules. Each module had a set of
dependencies which would be automatically loaded before it. The dynamic-linking
phase connected symbols in each module to symbols in other modules, and
everything was happy. (Note that some systems' dlopen only resolves symbols
from dynamically-loaded modules to the main executable, so inter-module
linkage had to be done by hand with dlsym. I think the issue was with the SGI
dl* functions.) There was no need for message-based communication; you could
directly call methods and functions in other modules. The bootstrap module
loaded other modules by name, so didn't have to know anything about them (this
was controlled by a text file).
This worked pretty well, but forced me to write plugins in C++. The obvious
solution was to translate a mud-lang to C++, then to a shared library, then
load it in dynamically... at this point I ran amok with language issues and
never really recovered.
James
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00412" HREF="msg00412.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud (was Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals)</A></strong>,
Jon Leonard <a href="mailto:jleonard#divcom,slimy.com">jleonard#divcom,slimy.com</a>, Fri 23 Oct 1998, 20:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00375" HREF="msg00375.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud (was Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals)</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Fri 23 Oct 1998, 02:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00380" HREF="msg00380.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud (was Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals)</A></strong>,
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