[Verse-dev] Verse and Croquet

[ennoausberlin at mac.com]

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Hi

> It really depends on whether croquet developers have the interest  
> to integrate verse.

Croquet is a community based project. You can contribute what you  
want. If its useful for the majority, it will be included in the main  
distribution, if not you
can distribute it in other ways (squeaksource etc)

> If a mentor is needed, then Eskil could choose someone- I'd like to  
> be a mentor for a verse integration project myself ;) Certainly  
> this is a good case for using verse, but any such person  
> implementing it would probably have to choose how to limit the  
> scope of what verse does here (especially for a summer of code  
> project).

There are two ways to integrate external code. FFI and VM Plugin. I  
have no experience in both. The croquet developers I talked with  
pushed me to use VM plugin.

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1448

The plugin and surrounding software should provide these capabilities

* connect to a verse server
* "download" geometry and color data
* build up the model using this data

Later on we could share such brand new things like skeletal animation  
data. But for now it should be enough.

What I can do is the following

* Smalltalk programming
* Testing on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
* Bug reports
* Documentation
* Answer smalltalk related questions

Have a nice day
Enno
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