Subject: Permissions system of moo

From: [email-masked] (Jeff Prothero)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 12:29:01 -0800

Byron Montgomerie <[email-masked]>:

| What I have in mind exactly is the user/group/other
| permission system of unix translated into a form for moo.

As both a unix and moo novice, perhaps I should keep quiet :)...
but I have the impression groups are one of the less successful
unix constructs.  I tend to oscillate between not implementing
them all in a mud context, or else implementing a more general
procedural hook that can be used to implement groups, but isn't
restricted to doing so.

Speaking as a _very_ new reader of moo design/implementation,
one of the most attractive aspects of moo is precisely it's
>lack< of hair -- just the essential stuff in the server, not
oodles of feeps randomly hacked in because they looked intriguing
one week.

(It >does< sound as though perhaps the debug flag didn't work
out as well as hoped... I'd be curious to hear a retrospective
of what the moo designers would/n't do differently in light of
hindsight...)

Jeff

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From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 10:13:13 -0800

> Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 1993 12:29:01 -0800
> From:	[email-masked] (Jeff Prothero)
> 

The debug flag was part of the server I inherited from Ghond back in the summer
on 1990.  I didn't like it then and I don't like it now, but help is finally on
the way.  In release 1.8.0, coming `soon', a far better system of exception
handling is implemented and use of the debug flag is, as we say, `deprecated'.
As of the release after that, the debug flag will be history.

	Pavel