[Zope] MOO vs Zope

[Lennart Regebro]

From: "Terry Hancock" <hancock at anansispaceworks.com>
> In my research of online collaborative systems I frequently
> see references to MOO or MUD based systems.  After some
> reading on the subject, it seems to me that the Zope OFS
> could be considered a MOO -- or at least very much like
> one.
>
> Can anybody comment on that?

Well, yes. I did write a MUD in LambdaMOO once, and there are many
similarities, mostly the use of simple but extensive object oriented script
languages and object stores.

> What (if anything) would a MOO server system be more adept
> than a Zope server at?

Making text-based multi-user dungeouns. That is after wall, what they were
made for. :-)

> And would it be logical to emulate
> MOO-based technologies using Zope OFS as the database?

I don't think emulate is the right word. ZODB (which I assume you are
referring to) is a generic object store. It would be perfectly possible to
write a MUD in Python + ZODB. No problems at all.

The rest of Zope may not be as useful for it. The permission system surely
would be nice, though. A web-based MUD? Yup. Surely Zope would rule at that.

> I've essentially already committed to using Zope at the core
> of my application

And you might get more helpful answers if you tell us what that application
is. :-)

//Lennart