Re: [Jython-users] Anyone interested in helping on a Minecraft plugin project?

[Ben L. <ben...@gm...>]

Hello Paul

Recently I have also been investigating ways of creating minecraft plugins
in python. I have came up with a prototype of building plugins on top of
the Sponge API.

I have put the code on github here https://github.com/skinny121/PySponge

The major hurdles for creating a binding is that the different plugin apis
all like to use annotations and they often use annotations statically to
discovers plugins.

The solution I came up with was to simply generate the main plugin java
class via a setup script and link to the plugin python files from there.

Ben Lewis

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Paul Everitt <pau...@me...> wrote:

>
> On Oct 15, 2015, at 11:48 AM, Stefan Eletzhofer <
> ste...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Am [DATE] schrieb "Paul Everitt" <[ADDRESS]>:
>
>
>
> As has been discussed here a few times, Minecraft is a great place for
> getting kids interested in programming. Python, via Jython, is a great
> match for that, as the #1 teaching language.
>
>
> Yeah, it is!  Two children *love* Minecraft.  I guess they'd *love* to
> teach MC some new tricks if
> it would be approachable.
>
>
> It certainly has the potential to be quite approachable. Seppe’s original
> blog post has a screencast showing how you can let people type in Python
> code, from a browser:
>
>
> http://blog.macuyiko.com/post/2015/rebuilding-our-jython-console-plugin-for-minecraft.html
>
> We have other material in a different place (GitHub organization with some
> repos) but I don’t want to promote that name until it’s clear the project
> will continue.
>
>
> Seppe vanden Broucke got a Jython-based Minecraft plugin that lets you run
> Python code that talks to the Minecraft server API, including a
> websocket-based Web UI for typing in code that is sent over and executed.
> It’s fascinating stuff. I’m pitching in to work on that frontend and some
> other project stuff.
>
>
> Do you have a link somewhere?
>
>
> But we need some help on the Java/Jython side if it is going to go
> anywhere. Even 5 hours of help from someone that knows Java, Gradle/Maven,
> and Jython would go a long way. I don’t know those things, and am unlikely
> to learn it well enough in the time I have available.
>
>
> Well -- I don't know about java (cough) but we do have experience in
> Jython -- our company's software
> bases on a Jython backend to a PLM System (Jython 2.7, Flask based) ...
>
> The problem is I have not the faintest idea how MC works.  Any concrete
> issues / suggestions?
>
>
> Minecraft servers support server-side extension via plugin systems. There
> are 3 main plugin projects at the moment:
>
> - Canary (dead)
> - Spigot (successor to Canary’s API)
> - Sponge (more ambitious)
>
> Seppe’s code has support for Canary and Spigot. For the most part, it
> works, but there are some things that could be done.
>
> What’s more needed, though, is basic Java/Jython stuff. We don’t have an
> automated way to build it (e.g Gradle or Maven) which also means we can’t
> really hook it up to a CI server. (For that matter, we don’t have any
> tests.)
>
> At the point where we want to attract any outsiders, we need to pay
> attention to some form of distribution. Our build is currently very large
> and you have to do a few semi-error-prone manual steps to install.
>
> Finally, you have to run a web server manually to serve up the static
> files for the web UI. Would be nice to have the Jython process do that,
> just to eliminate some steps needed.
>
> Beyond that, the sky is the limit. A system where plugin people could
> create, collaborate, and share little snippets is certainly feasible. And
> once we get to the point where we can reach out to the Python community,
> we’ll have plenty of help. But we’re stuck at the moment on Java janitorial
> work. [wink]
>
> —Paul
>
>
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