[sugar] "Garden": A (currently hypothetical) Sugar library for sharing state between Activity participants

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Andrew Clunis wrote:
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> Hi dan!
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> I was hoping I could get a hold of you.
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> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:35:22AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 03:01 -0500, Andrew Clunis wrote:
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>> One problem with this is that you can't depend on multicast only.  You
>> have to deal with both multicast _and_ unicast.  Because of the nature
>> of wireless networks, you may be on a different channel than the person
>> sitting next to you.  It's unclear whether or not multicast will
>> actually be routed correctly everywhere, and multicast has other
>> reliability issues (ie, multicast frames are not retried/acked in the
>> 802.11 protocol level, they are just dropped much like UDP).  So over
>> multicast, there needs to be some best-effort delivery protocol like the
>> MostlyReliablePipe implements.  But the MRP protocol is really bad and
>> shouldn't be used.
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> That's why I wanted to chat with you.  I want to use whatever subsystem
> that Sugar will provide for the message passing, but it was my
> understanding that sugar.p2p sucks right now and will be refactored/
> replaced.  I would be very interested in hearing about how it will look
> in the future.
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Btw, I think we should try and tackle this for BTest-2. It's a bit of a 
stopper for activities author to start using the mesh.

>> It's a good idea to start working on something like this.  And remember
>> to keep it simple from the start and work out from there, otherwise it
>> may seem like a mountain to climb.  Furthermore, it might be useful to
>> identify one or two use-cases to build the model around; pick an
>> activity or two that you would envision would use this library, and look
>> at everything the library does with respect to those activities (and the
>> kids using those activities!) needs and interactions.
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> I'm going to start with Sketch. :)
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> But there's a lot of architectural issues to get sorted first, as you
> said before.
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Feel free to take the sketch code (which is currently in sugar/tests/) 
and move it out to his own module when you start to work on this.

Marco