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  • From: Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master sorcery by Jaka Kranjc (b04e448cba60b964e57245a512770e6d5f0a42bb)
  • Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:18:11 +0100

On Wednesday 25 of February 2009 16:59:25 Remko van der Vossen wrote:
> > I accomplished what I wanted - the install-info mistery has been solved
> > and
> > awareness is higher. There are more of the spell implementations to fix,
> > but
> > now we know what needs to be done and why (thanks George).
>
> Yes, that is good, but as you say there is more and it would be very
> helpful if sorcery would report on those issues. And indeed, many thanks
> to George for all the work he did solving the various spells.
It does report them, you can see an error. If you worry about it scrolling
by,
you can just grep for it over all your compile logs.

> > Warnings wouldn't do any good. In case of install-info we had *errors*
> > and yet
> > nobody cared. Nobody reported any issues with other kinds of PRE_REMOVE
> > and
> > POST_REMOVE files.
>
> Well, I think a large part of that is just that it scrolls by way too
> quickly, big loud sorcery warnings in RED, like we have when you for
> instance do a config_query_option OPTS ..., preferably repeated at the end
> of a cast would stand out way more and would also encourage end users to
> report bugs on them.
This would only increase the chances for users with voyeur mode on. And only
notices from FINAL are replicated at the end of cast (in the devel branch
only).

> > These two are just like any other spell file and should exit succesfully
> > if
> > all went well.
>
> Definately, which is exactly the reason I would encourage you to make
> sorcery scream loudly if they don't. Leaving it completely numb simply
> serves to open the door to these kinds of spells bugs to creep back in.
These files are added rarely and we still have peer review. ;)

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