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[koi-dev] Greetings

Hi There,

Just found this group after deciding that I was interested in developing 
some Distributed Programming Facilities.

Im interested in a couple of things -

Instant messaging
are the other solutions better than anything koi could produce?
Just how much interoperability do people want in IM, editing same code, 
same project etc.

Distributed Systems
Now, Im a 3rd year CS student, and havent actually studied networking as 
a module, so i may be about to suggest something that already exists, 
but ....

What about a system where each instance of eclipse operated as both a 
client and a server, maintaining a list of who is 'boss' - The boss 
being the instance that is currently behaving as the server.

There must be some way of dynamically controlling bosses within a group, 
could be implemented initally as a kind of 'ops and users', but then 
changed to allow the net to reassign boss if clients were lost.

This system would probably require some kind of 'sync ing' whenever new 
users joined the net, to ensure all files are identical. then if changes 
are made to the files only the patches need to be sent across the network.

Ive just been daydreaming about this for the past few days and wanted to 
get it down on file. :) Any suggestions, or feedback, or just plain ole 
'wont work' responses?

Richard