KIP - 1st Developer's Conference: REPORT
(Last changes Nov-24 1995)
Report of the 1st KIP Developer's Conference, Nov-23 '95, 5.00 pm - 7.00 pm
PARTICIPANTS: Gerd, Leo, Thore, Markus, Sevo, Michael KOCHENBURGER, Sonja, Gerald OHL.
  1. Gerd gave a short overview of the history of KIP leading to this conference. After the success of Phase I of the KIP we came in the 'october-discussion' (Gerd, Markus, Sevo, Leo) to the point 'to go public': KIP is a pure research-project and we want it to become a complete public project shared through the internet in the spirit of GNU and LINUX.
  2. After short discussions of well known problems (e.g. still the lacking of a good documentation of Phase I, the lack of a good collision-algorithm, the unsolved problem of distributing the computations of the world-process more to the clients) we concentrated on the question, how to organize the communication process of KIP to be able to support an open development. The following solutions have been proposed:
    1. All important documents and informations will be posted on our Web-Server (thus continuing what we have done already).
    2. Markus will set up an EMail-List 'kip-ml@inm.de' for the project. This should be available starting with Nov-27 95. First You should mail to Markus 'fix@inm.de', to be put on the list. Then there will later on be an automatic processing available.
    3. Everybody who is doing real programming work should write an infinite 'project-diary' which contains dayly information about AUTHOR, MACHINE, MODULE, PATH, DESCRIPTION of actions, EXPLANATION of reasons. We will start this as a normal file. In the near future Markus will set up an EMail-Version of this diary.
  3. Finally we set up a first list of the software-tools we want to use for the world-process and for the knowbots:
    1. COMPILER: GNU-C++ (and HP-C++, if available).
    2. DEBUGGER: GNU (HP-UX-Debugger, if available).
    3. OS: HP-UX 9.0.5 (10.0) and LINUX 1.1.13 (with the following updates).
    4. EDITOR: any
    5. DOKUMENTATION: rcs.
    6. OTHERS: purify (if available).
    Because we implemented the knowbots and the world-process with the world-view in Objective-C under Nextstep 3.3, we will keep this software too. We will try to set up a in the future a multi-platform-software, which can be compiled for each of these systems (and perhaps more in the future).
  4. We have to mention that our pseudo-knowbots are developed under LINUX/ XWindow/Motif/GNU-C++ (=Stevie-I) and MS-Windows/Watcom 10.0/C (=Stevie-II).
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