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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] opinion for spell removal
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:03:17 +0200

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:12:36PM +0200, Mathieu L. wrote:
> Heh, neat :)
> However it doesn't change the fact that you're probably one of the last
> online sources for fags now, and that the program is not maintained
> anymore.

If the spell works with a SOURCE_URL change or if it can be made to work
without too much trouble, it should stay. I don't want to see people
spending hours of their free time to get some dead project to work again
on smgl, but if it's not much work, then I don't see a good reason to
drop it.

> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 11:28:46PM -0700, seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:
> > google works well, I'm the second link:
> >
> > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=fags-0.2.1.tar.gz&btnG=Search
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 11:26:59PM -0700, seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:
> > > This is where I moved everything for the new mirror algorithm for devel
> > > sorcery.
> > >
> > > swoolley.org/source_cache/fags-0.2.1.tar.gz
> > >
> > > Seth
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 04:09:31PM +0200, Mathieu L. wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > While trying to rework the fags spell, I've found out that not only
> > > > the
> > > > webpage url is dead, (http://www.tty0.org/page/fags/) but also that
> > > > if you try to summon the sources
> > > > (http://www.tty0.org/page/fags/fags-0.2.1.tar.gz) you won't get a
> > > > valid
> > > > tarball.
> > > > Then I tried to get some more info about it on the net, to see if
> > > > there
> > > > was an alternative repos or something like that but to no avail.
> > > >
> > > > So for the moment I think it's not worth the trouble of working on the
> > > > spell and I'm even pondering on removing the spell as I don't think
> > > > many ppl use it.
> > > >
> > > > What do you all think please?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Mathieu
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > If a function be advertised to return an error code in the event of
> > > > difficulties, thou shalt check for that code, yea, even though the
> > > > checks triple the size of thy code and produce aches in thy typing
> > > > fingers, for if thou thinkest "it cannot happen to me," the gods shall
> > > > surely punish thee for thy arrogance.
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> difficulties, thou shalt check for that code, yea, even though the
> checks triple the size of thy code and produce aches in thy typing
> fingers, for if thou thinkest "it cannot happen to me," the gods shall
> surely punish thee for thy arrogance.
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