    Dead Souls and LPUniversity Libs

    	There is some question about the
    relationship between the Dead Souls mudlib and
    the LPUniversity mudlib. Hopefully the description
    below will unmuddy those waters.

    	Think of LPUniversity as a lib designed
    from the ground up with LPC education in mind. It
    is intended to be a lib coder's lib: crafted to
    precise specifications and tight tolerances.

    	You'll have to ask him, but it's my
    impression that Tacitus intends the LPUniversity
    lib to be a sort of gold standard of how
    LP libs should be.

    	As such, it's going to take a long time
    to get the LPUniversity lib into the kind of
    shape it needs to be in order to have a high
    adoption rate. You can think of it as a Rolls
    Royce under construction, still up on the lift.

    	Dead Souls is ready for prime-time. Though
    it lacks some fun stuff that will be added in
    the future, everything you need is there for
    making almost whatever you want, right away. It's
    not perfect, but it works. If LPUniversity is
    a Rolls on the build lift, Dead Souls is the
    Honda Civic in your driveway. Nothing to scream
    about, really, but it works great and takes you
    where you need to go.

    	The two libs complement each other. The
    point of Dead Souls has always been to get more
    people using LPC. The point of the LPUniversity
    umbrella project (which includes the LPUlib) has
    been to get more people using LPC.

    	By affiliating with Dead Souls, LPU gains
    a larger potential base of interested people.
    Dead Souls can be downloaded and run now, and put
    into production as quickly as you can build your
    world for it. This active user base strengthens
    the LPUniversity project by participating in the
    LPC community.

    	By affiliating with the LPU project, Dead
    Souls gains a resource for LPC discussion that
    has been sorely needed. Discussion forums and healthy
    competition between libs is the sort of thing that
    breeds interest in Dead Souls, breeding interest in
    LPC at large.

    	Everyone wins.

    	So that's pretty much it. The LPU lib is
    the car that's going to r0x0r but isn't ready to
    to roll yet. Dead Souls is the car that may not
    look as pretty, but has it where it counts. It
    actually turns over and gets you around.

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