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# Re: Minimal.DB

- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:07:48 PST
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- In-Reply-to: <199511160029.QAA17820@cheshire.cc.oxy.edu>

    IMHO, I just think there should be a MOO Database Archive, housing all manner
    of core databases for specific functions.  Like an RPG Core for RPG MOOs
    (AD&D perhaps?) or something similar; then cores for social (talker) MOOs
    (Perhaps with channel communications), etc, etc.

    Timothy Brown <tbrown@icon-stl.net>
    http://www.icon-stl.net/~tbrown/

    On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, C. Regis Wilson wrote:

    > >So I was once again hacking minimal.db, and I notice that I'm always
    > >starting with the same steps.  Why doesn't minimal.db consist of a single
    > >object, #0, which is a player and a programmer and a wizard, with a
    > >:do_login_command verb which returns #0?  I don't see any reason for
    > >minimal.db to contain a room or root parents at all.
    > >
    > The question is, "What is truly minimal?"  Some might argue that LambdaCore
    > is minimal.  Others posit that ZenMOO (http://www.zennet.com/) is minimal,
    > but which version, since there are two?  Don't get me wrong, I agree with you,
    > but perhaps the core could be released with several different "minimal"
    > cores.  Shall we say that a core under 1K is minimal?  Then, we could have
    > in the distribution:
    >
    > minimal.db(old)
    > sort_of_minimal.db
    > mostly_minimal.db
    > the_latest_in_minimal_dbs.db
    >
    > Pavel?
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    >

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