Re: [SwarmFest2004] development report submission

[Rick Riolo]

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the submission to SwarmFest 2004.

I have one question about this submission:
is the text below intended to fall under the 
  1) Abstracts (200-300 words)
category?  (or perhaps (2) extended abstracts (500-1500 words)
i haven't counted the words...).
Or are you intending to submit a paper and/or poster?

Thanks,
 - r

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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Scott Christley wrote:

> Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:24:32 -0500
> From: Scott Christley <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [SwarmFest2004] development report submission
> 
> Scott Christley
> University of Notre Dame
> address@hidden
> 
> 
> Swarm and GNUstep Development Report
> ====================================
> 
> In this report, I discuss the development efforts to allow Swarm
> applications to work within the GNUstep environment; the result is
> that Swarm acts like a third-party library within the GNUstep
> environment allowing Swarm to utilize existing GNUstep functionality.
> 
> GNUstep's website at http://www.gnustep.org describes GNUstep as 'a
> free, standard, object-oriented, cross-platform development meant to
> provide generalized visual interface design, a cohesive user
> interface, and look good as well. GNUstep is based on and completely
> compatible with the OpenStep specification developed by NeXT (now
> Apple Computer Inc.). GNUstep also implements many additional classes
> and methods, some from the Cocoa API for the sake of
> compatibility. GNUstep is written in the object-oriented language
> "Objective-C", a superset of C which adds object-orientation to C.'
> 
> The development project has several milestones and long-term goals:
> 
> 1) Remove usage of Swarm's internal libobjc and use the standard
>    Objective-C runtime provided with the GNU compiler.
> 
> 2) Package Swarm as a third-party library within the GNUstep Makefile
>    system so that it can be asily incorporated into GNUstep
>    applications.
> 
> 3) Have Swarm's simulation scheduling mechanism work alongside
>    GNUstep's graphical event processing.
> 
> 4) Replace Tcl/Tk/BLT graphical interface with a GNUstep one.
> 
> 5) Replace some Swarm internal implementations with GNUstep classes.
> 
> 6) Allow Swarm classes, both internal and user-defined agents, to be a
>    palette in GORM.
> 
> 7) Creation of a Swarm application type within ProjectCenter to
>    provide a set of template files with some standard classes, menus,
>    and windows pre-defined for the user.
> 
> The current progress of these milestones, any issues encountered
> during the development process, work still to be done, and some
> exciting future prospects will be presented.
> 
> 
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