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

I agree with nick on this. It makes sense, and changing the commands now
(pre - 1.0) is fine by me.

Besides, a system-upgrade is a rather daunting process, unlike a script or
grimoire update, which are simple-ish. Thus the daunting process has the
long command. Makes sense to me.

-Ryan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Jennings" <nkj AT namodn.com>
To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] sorcery update <-> system-update


> Hi Sergey.
>
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:59:28AM -0400, Sergey A Lipnevich wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > If I understand correctly, what used to be `sorcery update' is now
> > `sorcery system-update', while `update' option only updates sorcery
> > scripts. I'd like to suggest switching these, so that well-known
> > behavior is preserved.  Also, the longer option name is more suitable
for
> > less frequently used case. I update grimoires much more frequently than
> > I update sorcery (except for these tumultuous days of new sorcery
> > releases ;-) ). Finally, I'm probably missing something because I can't
> > attend Sunday meetings, but why are such options introduced without
> > prior consideration?
> > Thanks!
>
>  I started a thread on this, in sm-discuss, several weeks ago, asking
>  what people thought, and if anyone had any other suggestions. Anyone
>  that did not agree with switching the meaning of 'sorcery update' (as
>  I recall only one, or two, people were against it) had no suggestion
>  as to what we could name these different functions instead. Several
>  other people (not many more) said it was fine to switch it.
>
>  I know not many people responded, so It doesn't really seem like that
>  big of a deal. However I don't think 'switching' them, as you say, makes
>  any sense at all.
>
>  So I personally deliberated over this after not getting much of a
response,
>  and decided that this is the logical way to issue the commands.
>
>  scribe controls the grimoire. You run scribe update to update the
>  grimoires. sorcery controls the scripts. You run sorcery update to update
>  the scripts.
>
> - Nick
>
>
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