[Groupkit-users] Tequila (Tcl collaboration infrastructure)

[Mark R. <ma...@ma...>]

You may have heard of a project called Tequila that Jean-Claude Wippler
had done a few years ago, which provided a mechanism to share data
using automatically synchronized Tcl arrays.

As part of a larger project, Jean-Claude has been doing a major  
revamp of
Tequila.  He's borrowed a lot of core concepts from GroupKit, giving  
the new
version (called T2) familiar remote procedure calls, events/ 
notifiers, and
pools, which are like GroupKit environments, but built on Metakit  
tables.  The
latter is a distinct improvement, providing a more natural way to  
structure the
kind of data often used in collaborative apps.  It also means its  
naturally
persistent.  The whole thing was designed from the start to work with  
Starkits,
meaning deployment is a snap.

T2 is much leaner, more like the older versions of GroupKit (without  
all the
collaborative UI layer) than when we started mucking around with the
meta-architecture stuff.  It's not focused specifically on user  
interface oriented
collaborative apps (though it can do them nicely), but data sharing  
more generally.

There are some big additions planned; right now its in the state of  
having
the basics and a few demos in place, and trying to get the core API's  
right.
As such, it's a great time for feedback from some people who are  
interested
in this kind of system, or would like to get involved.  Hence this  
email.

There's info on Tequila at  http://www.equi4.com/tequila.html

In particular, take a look at the paper, slides and the Starkit  
referenced in
the "Latest News" section of that page.

Hope you all find this of interest.

Cheers
Mark