From reifiedmind at gmail.com  Sun Sep 24 11:06:52 2006
From: reifiedmind at gmail.com (mds)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:06:52 +0100
Subject: [lifp-devel] Parallel project
Message-ID: <9f543fb0609240406q467ad05bq19e20bf6bf38738f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi there,

First of all, good job on LIFP!

Just thought I'd announce a similar project that I'm working on
entitled "e-ZIL", providing an Emacs Lisp layer for the composition of
Interactive Fiction. I actually utilise Inform, so e-ZIL is something
of a meta-language / pre-processor.

I've been working on it on and off for quite a while now and shall be
releasing 0.1 at the start of October. Check out

    http://ezil.sf.net

for more information: screenshots, documentation, blurbs, etc. Perhaps
we can pool some ideas in the near future?

All the best,
Marc


From grue at mail.ru  Sun Sep 24 18:04:43 2006
From: grue at mail.ru (Timofei Shatrov)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:04:43 +0400
Subject: [lifp-devel] Parallel project
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m> Hi there,

m> First of all, good job on LIFP!

m> Just thought I'd announce a similar project that I'm working on
m> entitled "e-ZIL", providing an Emacs Lisp layer for the composition of
m> Interactive Fiction. I actually utilise Inform, so e-ZIL is something
m> of a meta-language / pre-processor.

m> I've been working on it on and off for quite a while now and shall be
m> releasing 0.1 at the start of October. Check out

m>     http://ezil.sf.net

m> for more information: screenshots, documentation, blurbs, etc. Perhaps
m> we can pool some ideas in the near future?

This is very interesting. Compiling to Inform allows for the creation
of z-code file while my system cannot do this. This solves problems
with parser, undo, saving, etc.: practically everything. I haven't
been working on LIFP lately - still need to find time to finish Advent
port and release an updated version (which is much better than 0.1).
Then the goal was to compile library and game files into one "lifpball"
and also implement savefiles. But between your project and Inform 7 it
will be very tough to find a niche!

-- 
Best regards,
 Timofei Shatrov                    mailto:grue at mail.ru
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