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["Ryan Abrams" <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>]

Whatever way we end up going with sorcery spell(s), we need to stabilize
this before 0.9, so that our next install iso (and 1.0) will be able to
upgrade itself.

One thing that may be worth considering in simply making sorcery a
non-spell. Just make sorcery update itself manually as a special case. It
would solve ALL the problems with multiple spells, versioning, etc, because
we wouldnt have to work within cast's rules. It's not ideal in the
"everything is a spell" metaphor, but it may work better for the 1.0
timeline, and would stop all this update nonsense.

What are peoples thoughts on this?

-Ryan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Jennings" <nkj AT namodn.com>
To: "Spencer Ogden" <spencero AT mail.utexas.edu>
Cc: <SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Still Problems


> Yeah - download sorcery-stable.tar.bz2 from
download.sourcemage.org/sorcery/
>
> To avoid this (for others who haven't yet updated), you can remove the
sorcery
> entry from /var/state/sorcery/packages
>
> Since, 'sorcery-stable' conflicts with 'sorcery', sorcery is being removed
> before sorcery-stable is being installed, and so when sorcery-stable is
> ready to be installed, theres no summon command.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:19:38AM -0500, Spencer Ogden wrote:
> > Sorry to bring up more problems, but things aren't working for me yet.
> > Thanks for the hard work so far Nick and Ryan.
> >
> > So I do a `scribe update` which downloads the devel grimoire fine. But
then
> > when I do `cast sorcery-stable` the script dispels sorcery and then
spews
> > a bunch of errors about not being able to find `summon`, which makes
sense
> > because when I Cntl-C out all of the sorcery scripts are gone and I have
> > to reinstall them. Should I just try and go the manual route?
> >
> > Spencer
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