[Swarm-Support] Swarm Tutorial Upgrade: Who wants to help ??? (was Re: [Swarm-Support] swarmapps-2.1.1

[Paul E Johnson]

I've been meaning to check in these fixes for swarmapps. These problems 
affect all platforms.  If David wants to check them in, that will be 
fine with me.

Along the way to doing that, I have planed to add this tutorial exercise 
that shows how to do command line arguments and how to take snapshots:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/ps909/Agent-Based_Models/simpleObserverBug3-6.tar.gz

I would also like to add some whole new applications to the swarm apps 
package.  I would like audience feedback on the possibility that we add 
the Conway Game of life model I put up here:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/MySwarmCode/ConwayLife-1.1-Swarm-2.1.140.tar.gz
(same one is already in Swarm ftp)

And this model, which needs some updating, but not much. This one is 
about the Latane dynamic public opinion model.

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/MySwarmCode/SocialImpact-20030224.tar.gz

I'm seriously thinking we should remove the market model from swarmapps, 
since I've never understood what good it is. In its place, I'd like to 
put the santa fe Artificial Stock Market 2.1.

I don't know if there is a better venue than swarm support for this 
discussion, but I will be glad if somebody who knows better would 
forward this mail to it.

address@hidden wrote:
> Hey David,
>
> Do you have any interest in joining the Savannah group and checking
> in fixes to those problems?
>   http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/swarm
>
> address@hidden writes:
>  > Successful compilation of Heatbugs (toasty!), the entire Tutorial, and 
>  > Mousetrap (squeak!)
>  > 
>  > Unsuccessful compilation of market and both hello-world versions, 
>  > basically all of them stemming from this kind of error:
>  > 
>  > PplObserverSwarm.m:88: warning: invalid receiver type `void '
>  > PplObserverSwarm.m:88: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
>  > 
>  > I'm not sure if anyone actually cares about that, but its a note :-)
>  > 
>  > Also I found a few (really, really trivial) documentation bugs in the 
>  > Tutorial.
>  > 
>  > I should be testing it with some more difficult and varied apps this 
>  > weekend and will report my results.



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