mooR cowbell

This is a work-in-progress from-scratch "core" database for mooR.

Goal is to build the foundation for a rich, social environment in the spirit of classic MOOs and TinyMU* systems, but future-facing.

• Start with the web and rich content as first-class elements.
• Use new language features like lexical scopes / blocks, symbols, booleans, list comprehensions, and maps.
• Core is written using the objdef format, so can be properly managed and authored in revision control tools. While changes can be made in-MOO, they are meant to be merged back into the repository as the canonical version.

(Note: While some utility code might get ported from Lambda or JHCore the intent is start from scratch to take advantage of mooR's more advanced features. Wholesale porting of generic objects it not expected / desired)

Development

To compile / validate your changes use the provided Makefile

• make will use the latest mooR release (via docker) to compiler / import "*.moo" into a local generated old-style textdump file, for the purpose of validation
• make clean will destroy said file
• make gen.objdir will build a new objdef dir from the local changes.
• make rebuild will build a new objdef dir with your local changes and then (WARNING) overwrite your local changes. Think of this is as a formatting step (for prior to commit, etc)

To run a moor instance with the provided core database, first make sure you don't have any old database files lying around locally, and then run

docker compose up

Contribution

Pull requests accepted.