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- From: Jonathan Evraire <evraire AT tuwg.com>
- To: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>
- Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Sorcery spell discussion
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 20:07:50 +0000 (UTC)
Well my opinion of this, in short, is it's a Good Idea(TM).
I understand why we've wanted to keep it a spell (the whole
"everythings-a-spell idea, version numbering, etc.), but everything we've
been going through recently seems to have been telling us to go in this
direction.
Having sorcery as a spell is like having an app that's an app
and it's data at the same time: the app tries to modify the data which
screws up the app. Let's make a clean cut between the two: sorcery et al.
become the app, and the grimoire is the data.
Then we can build an auto-update feature into sorcery. How is this
different than having sorcery as a spell? Simple: it treats sorcery
differently so it can do things differently, in a more intelligent
way that's specific to sorcery but may not work with other spells.
So again, in summary, I think this is a Good Idea(TM) and I also think
we should try to get this in before 1.0.
My 0.02$ CA :)
Jonathan Evraire
evraire at tuwg.com
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Nick Jennings wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've been thinking long and hard about the problems we've run into
> with the sorcery spell. I don't want to get into the details of these
> problems (that's another discussion), but I was thinking of a semi
> major change to the sorcery command.
>
> We'd no longer have sorcery be a spell at all. It would be updated
> via it's own command line parameter. The various params would be
> something line this:
>
> sorcery update : Only updates the sorcery spell, based on which
> branch you are tracking (set in the sorcery menu).
>
> sorcery system-update : This would do the actions sorcery update currently
> does (update grimoire, spells etc.)
>
> sorcery queue : Generates a queue of spells that need to be
> updated. This could also be system-queue, not
> sure.
>
>
> I'd like to get a discussion going about this, perhaps some better ideas
> will come of it (There are things I like about this idea, and things
> I don't like).
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Nick Jennings
> Sorcery Team Lead
>
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[SM-Discuss] Sorcery spell discussion,
Nick Jennings, 09/19/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Sorcery spell discussion,
Jonathan Evraire, 09/19/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Sorcery spell discussion, Jeremy Kolb, 09/19/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Sorcery spell discussion, Justin Rocha, 09/19/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Sorcery spell discussion,
Eric Schabell, 09/20/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Sorcery spell discussion, Jens Laas, 09/20/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Sorcery spell discussion, Sergey A. Lipnevich, 09/20/2002
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Sorcery spell discussion,
Jonathan Evraire, 09/19/2002
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