Anybody, but esp. Leif K.:
I'm returning to an active interest in Oz, mainly because of specific AI
related projects I'm working on, for which I think Mozart-Oz is ideal, but
my goal is to apply whatever testing expertise I possess to testing
Mozart-Oz itself. Partly I seek to understand Oz inside-out and upside-down,
but also I think it's really an amazing achievement from a software
engineering perspective even without comprehending all the internals (yet)
and I want to return something to the community that made it possible.
First, I'd like to understand what's needed in terms of testing,
particularly on Win32, where I'm (for now) handcuffed. Peter Van Roy
suggested a few things, mostly related to distributed features of Oz, and
I'd like to create a wish list from the rest of the development team. I am
fully capable of white and black box testing, as needed.
Second, I would like to know whether anyone has seriously worked on any
Win32 COM bindings for Mozart (either making it a client-consumer or
server-producer of COM objects. I care only about COM in general. Stuff like
ActiveSever or ActiveX forms is not really in scope. I want to be able to
use COM objects in Oz, and I want to implement COM objects in Oz -- namely
so I can expose inference engine-type functionality to Windows application
via COM. Anybody try this? Any reason why nobody has submitted anything COM
related to MOGUL besides the obvservation that most of you are Unix/Linux or
Mac folks?
Third,
Third,
Sincerely,
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Bob Calco
Centreville, Virginia
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