I agree with Miles--I think you (Tomas) will find the mailing list community responsive. I think MASON shines because of its leanness, simplicity, non-dependence on any particular IDE (you can use anything), and *documentation*. By documentation, I mean Javadoc, tutorials, and information on performance optimization (usually time). On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Miles Parker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Also, as a somewhat independent developer I can't help but note that message > traffic is not as useful metric for usage or usefulness as one might think. > In fact the volume of traffic can be inversely proportional to software > quality and amount of documentation. > On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:51 PM, Matthew Berryman wrote: > > Tomas, > > I think the low volume simply reflects the lower use of MASON compared with > some other tools, e.g. Repast. > The response from the main developer Sean is usually pretty quick (there are > some of us in the MASON community who wonder when Sean actually sleeps), and > very helpful. I plan on contributing a bit more myself to the > discussion---have just been given a big new project and hope that MASON will > be used as part of it. > MASON is certainly very well architected. > > Regards, > Dr Matthew Berryman > Defence and Systems Institute > Bldg. W (MLK-05) > University of South Australia > Mawson Lakes SA 5095 > t +61 8 8302 5882 > f +61 8 8302 5344 > m +61 413 458 594 > CRICOS Provider Number: 00121B > > On 23/06/2010, at 7:15 AM, Tomas Puelma wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm evaluating MASON to do my research in modeling biological systems with > > ABMs. I'm liking a lot MASON over other simulation tools I've seen, but I'm > a little > > concerned with the support. So, I wanted to ask... how is it? > > For what I see, there are few messages and participation in this mailing > list. Is > > there any developer or member of the MASON proyect actively seeing and > > answering the users questions? Are the responses quick? > > I think support its a key element when using a tool/library like this, so > I'm really > > hoping the support here is good, because, like I said, I'm liking MASON > features a > > lot. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best, > > Tomas > > > cheers, > Miles > Miles Parker > President and Chief Software Architect > Metascape, LLC > http://metascapeabm.com > > skype: milestparker > > vox: 509-643-4441 > > mailto:[log in to unmask] > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/milestparker > > http://milesparker.blogspot.com >