[sldev] Scripting the client

[Lawson English]

John Hurliman wrote:
> Lawson English wrote:
>>
>> Most users are trustworthy. I'm just worried that there will be a 
>> class of griefers who are not technical savvy enough to compile the 
>> viewer with a couple of extra lines of code to export private IM to a 
>> rebroadcaster who ARE technical enough to drop in a plug-in that does 
>> it for them with a click of a button.
>>
>
> That class of griefers just asks their friends who have commit access 
> to ShoopedLife to add the features they want; I think this is a bit of 
> a strawman argument.

Didn't mean it to be. It's something I've had to consider when working 
on the Croquet IM thing. The base object for Croquet is a TeaTime object 
which distribtues a clone of itself to every client. That kinda destroys 
the whole concept of private IM. A non-TObject is a relatively poorly 
supported afterthought in Croquet, currently, so I may have to just make 
IM a separate Smalltalk text window outside the Croquet view.