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  • From: seth AT swoolley.homeip.net
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] call for assistance fixing easy-to-fix problems in spells
  • Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 18:12:54 -0700

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 05:58:47PM -0700, seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:
> Hi smgl'ers-who-aren't-developers-yet,
>
> I have a perfect opportunity for those who don't know so much about
> sorcery internals to contribute fixes!
>
> Prometheus is our automated testing suite that finds compile errors when
> casting spells. Well one of the most common errors is a missing
> dependency. I've run prometheus against stable-rc and have found a
> whole slew of missing dependencies. These look similar most of the
> time:
>
> * compile errors with missing headers (missing the entire spell -- do
> worry about these)
>
> * compile breaks during ./configure stage saying something's missing
>
> * compile errors with undefined references (missing an optional
> subdependency -- don't worry about those if you don't know about
> these yet since stable sorcery doesn't support those yet)
>
> The prometheus bugs that probably closely match the first two bullets
> are here:
>
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=cast+failure+swoolley-0-4&bug_status=NEW&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=missing
>

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=cast+failure+swoolley-0-4&bug_status=NEW&long_desc_type=anywordssubstr&long_desc=undeclared+missing

this actually gets both bullets :)

Seth

> If we could have a volunteer specifically take these spells on by
> registering a bugzilla account, assigning them to yourself and editing
> them in perforce/git/svn whatever, I would much appreciate it. These
> are quick fixes and I can walk anybody through the first few fixes to
> get you on the road to more than sorcery -- guruness.
>
> Seth
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