SkotOS Areas of Functionality

[noahgibbs]

I mentioned recently that I'd send this information to Joe, then realised it's of broader interest than that. One thing I did was to look over the SkotOS repo (https://github.com/ChatTheatre/SkotOS) and check out all the usr directories and similar, to see what areas of DGD functionality there were.

Here's that quick description of the SkotOS repo directory structure:

Inside skoot, there are directories:

• base
• core - seems to be mostly about derived propertiesda
• data - in kernellib "data" means DGD lightweight objects - these are maps, iterators, etc.
• data/modules - a module dependency and library system's dependency data
• data/vault - these are XML objects for lots of Skotos in-game objects
• doc - docs, probably accessible to in-game help system
• include - headers defining constants, especially object names
• kernel - most of the Kernellib code
• lib - high-level libraries, including data structures, interfaces and note functionality and a lightweight PNG (image) LPC implementation
• obj - a few data-structure objects
• usr - all the user directories - a huge variety of work

Skoot User Directories

User directories contain the vast majority of the interesting game code as well as a number of underlying features and functionality.

There's also a lot of random data in a lot of little hidden corners (and that's just in the Git repo.)

User directories include:

• CSD - the Combat, Skills and Death system
• DTD - XML Data Type Definition system
• DevSys - the Tree of Woe, and object import/export
• Game - a very simple Game abstract base class (used or no?)
• Generic - this looks like object vault management, see also SID; has lists of object folders to include or exclude
• HTTP - the HTTP port handler
• Jonkichi - looks like a few random handlers, mostly related to Merry; currently structural and clearly cannot be removed (yet)
• SAM - SAM is an older-style (outdated?) dynamic text generator; seems very much still in use, though
• SID - SAM document handling of some kind (SAM serialisation?)
• SMTP - manage email handling and connecting to an SMTP server
• SkootOnInn - in-game objects and web data for a long-ago prototype game
• SkotOS - in-game systems and data for, inclusively, NPCs, Merry, stories, Bilbo, socials...
• Socials - a little library code related to the Socials system
• System - the "boot-up" objects, various system management and monitoring at runtime, kernellib hooks like wiztool and progdb, module loading, logging, game configuration, outbound API calls...
• TextIF - handles a lot of text commands for a text world, including parsing, text generation and simple communications
• Theatre - for choosing/switching among multiple different games and chatting while doing so
• Tool - various staff commands, mostly related to Sam, Bilbo, Merry; also (another copy of?) editor.c
• UserAPI
• UserDB - user management, plus operations like "broadcast" that operate that the user/account level
• XML - XML parsing and generation
• admin - empty, at least in the SkotOS repo
• nino - some Merry dice handlers that don't look like they're used anywhere
• zell - Small scripts that look in-progress or one-off