On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:23:52PM +0000, J.W. Bizzaro wrote: > ``Not paying the piper. Piper is "a system for managing multi-protocol > connections between Internet-distributed objects." It's based on a number of > GNOME components (Loci, GMS, and Overflow), and is seen as an open source > answer to Microsoft's ".NET". The project is in its early stages, but has > gotten far enough to have a screenshot up. > > ``They are, of course, looking for people who want to help. For more > information, see the Piper web page and this GNOME News writeup.'' > > http://lwn.net/2000/0928/devel.php3 How do you think we all got here? =) I'd planned to lurk, but seeing that there are so few developers currently perhaps I'll say more. This project caught my interest mainly because I keep waiting to see what the next evolution of the ultra-powerful but ultra-unfriendly prompt-pipe combo. This project and the Enlightenment File Manager are the first positive steps away from a pure prompt that I've yet seen. I don't have a lot of Gnome/Bonobo development experience, but I'm strong in many other areas (game development background) which may or may not be useful as the project develops. Hope it all goes well. =) Bret -- "Why, that's the second biggest monkey head I've ever seen!" --Guybrush "LeChuck's dead. I blew him into a million gooey pieces." --Guybrush Bret Mogilefsky ** mogul-piper at gelatinous.com ** Programmer, SCEA R&D