I have been tossing around the idea of writing a graphical off-line editor for CircleMUD, initially for Macintosh, to be ported to Win/32 when stable. What I had in mind was a binary-identical file format between platforms for my own proprietary "area" files. These would be used during development, to be exported to ASCII "Circle" file batches when complete. I expect a 4-6 month development cycle including a couple months of testing and revisions (for the initial Mac version). I envision a VERY professional application with optional preferences for varying degrees of error checking (eg. "enforce euclidean") and formats (eg. "disallow extended mobs"), with possibly a test walk-through window with a navigation-only version of Circle itself. This promises to be a HUGE undertaking as I'm not accostomed to whipping out these kinds of things on a daily basis. The determining factor is: Is it a violation of the CircleMUD or DIKU licence to ask payment for the development environment? I'm not asking if you personally would pay for it. It's my job to make it worth the price. I want to know if it is LEGAL. Jeremy? -- Mandy, Director of The Multiplex -- pccs.cs.pomona.edu 4747 -- http://www.tmarts.com/Multiplex
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : 12/07/00 PST