This hasn't been active for a while but I am feeling like writing a super cool InSim lib and basing it on C++ but using SWIG to generate a wrapper for a bunch of other languages so people can use it and extend it to write whatever else they want. I'm assuming since this is open source I can borrow your work. Let me know if otherwise is true
I think some sort of interactive configuration could be implemented for power users and basic users alike if they decided they wanted to use it versus the zeroconf methods. Also, as to the auto updating you could have PRISM or a launch script call a helper script that checks for updates and pulls them, this is easiest on a *nix system because it would require git as a dependency. I know the github team uses Amazon S3 and updates an exe file that is called every time there is an update. I will however look deeper into this problem, but those are some quick surface thoughts.
EDIT: No I think I figured it out, we'll see.
EDIT 2: Well I'm still pretty sure I figured it out, but I don't think I have the required permissions to do it because the thread is closed and I can't post to it.
Complete honesty though I only really started to contribute to PRISM because I'm friends with T3 and I like to be nice with my friends, if you guys are interested in making me a maintainer though I guess I don't have a problem with that. I just need to figure out how to actually use this source control software