[Edu-sig] Looking for beta tester

[Andre Roberge]

Hello everyone,

Crunchy [1]  is *soon* going to be able to run as a server handling
multiple users [2].  Actually, it could always do that ... but not in
a way that allowed users to have different configuration settings ...
and, under some conditions, for older releases of Crunchy, variables
defined by one user could get "leaked" to another user ... but I
digress.

Anyway, since Crunchy is soon going to be able to run a server
handling multiple users (read: students logging from a pc to a
classroom server), it would be really nice to have some people
interested in trying it out and giving us feedback.

If you think you could do this (even it has to wait until September
until you are ready...), I would really be interested in hearing from
you.

Cheers,

André

[1] Version 0.9.9.1 of Crunchy can be found at
http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/
Much interesting work has been done and is currently done as part of
Google Summer of Code 2008 and a new release should be coming out
soon.
[2] There is one little, tiny, minuscule, limitation in running
Crunchy as a server.  Normally, a teacher would want the students to
run their code samples within Crunchy.  However, a student could
launch a *separate* Python application from Crunchy, for example a
game written using pyglet.  The "problem" is that the application gets
launched on the computer running Crunchy ... which would be the
server.  If you are a teacher directly connected to the server, and
have students launch applications that they write, this would mean
that the students' apps would compete with your own game^H^H^H^H^H
serious application for screen space.