Re: swarm support (was compare swarm with repast)

[Jacobo Myerston]

On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 01:43 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> Jacobo Myerston writes:
> > One of the problems of swarm, in my opinion, is portability. Swarm is 
> > in
> > some way  windows and redhat-centric (installing swarm in other linux
> > distribution is not easy anymore), for this reason the swarm community
> > is making no use of the advances that other platforms  offer.  I think
> > the macosx port of swarm should be crucial for the SDG, because
> > Objetive-C is also the native programming language of osx  (Objective-C
> > is no longer an ancient programming language only used by swarm
> > programmers). Nevertheless no main swarm-developer has showed interest
> > in the macosx-port.
>
> That's not quite true.

So, it is in part true.

Alex Perrone got most of the swarm code compiled and asked for help in 
order to port the rest of the libraries, but he din't get an answer in 
the support list.

> Two of the 7 members on the Savannah project
> page <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/swarm/> have expressed interest
> in the Mac OSX port.  And, since we don't have staff anymore, the
> members of that group are the only ones we could call "main
> swaDelianrm-developers".
>
> I'll go ahead and register my interest, as well.  About 6 months ago,
> I switched to Mac OSX as my "lightweight" OS.... i.e. I use an iBook
> when I travel.  There's no way I'll ever use it for serious
> development; but, it would be cool if I could use/build toy models on
> it.

There exists the idea under the swarm developers that OSX is cool, but 
not to be taken seriously.  If we could change the believes of the 
agents, we would get another behavior from them.  Actually OSX can be 
used for serious development, think in a cluster of multiprocessor 
xservers for distributed simulations.

> Also, I use Debian for my development.  I've only used RedHat once in
> my lifetime (and I'm not proud of that period of degeneracy [grin]).
> And Swarm installs and works fine on Debian.
>
> That said, however, we do have a much more serious portability
> situation than a 100% Java system would.  Any native-code project of
> this complexity would be in that situation, though.
>
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