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The file locking itself isn't very slow, it's the usage of it which has 
not been optimized yet. /tmp will be full of sorcery.* files if you stop a 
cast before it's done. The locklist* files may eventualy be moved into 
their own directory, but they are necessary and should be persistent.
I don't think there are any open bugs involving any of those complaints. 
If there's no bug report, it probably won't get fixed. As it stands now, 
most of the bugs are small.

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Phil White wrote:
> Ok, I guess I've been using SM for somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 
> months.
> 
>From what I've seen, even in stable, there are spells which don't cast for 
>one
> reason or another.  There's still the whole matter of molasses-y slow file 
> locking,
> sorting, and /tmp seems to always be full of sorcery.* files or locklist* 
> or some
> other sorcery generated files.
> 
> Source Mage, at this point, seems like it's _miles_ away from 1.0.  Pushing 
> for
> 1.0 is only going to aggravate the problems.
> 
> Every now and then Andrew and I get into arguments about Source Mage where 
> his
> only defense is to say "Well, it's still in development.   It's not 1.0 
> yet."
> 
> That doesn't excuse some of the more interesting problems of course, but if 
> you're
> going to inflict a distribution on the world, at least make it a reasonably 
> good
> FCS.  Have everything tested and working AOK.  
> 
> -Phil/CERisE 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:47:07PM +0000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > Hello Eric,
> > 
> > Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 3:53:18 PM, you wrote:
> > 
> > ES> Aside of the matter of who leads what, I would like to make a 
> > proposal that
> > ES> we drop the drive for a 1.0 release and the whole idea that we want 
> > to push
> > ES> for a distribution that MUST have releases and release dates.
> > 
> > Maybe we should just drop spells from the 1.0 release..
> > 
> > In other words we keep pushing for a 1.0 sorcery (including cauldron),
> > but exclude the grimoires from point releases so they can be kept
> > updated.
> > 
> > So instead of a "SourceMage 1.0 ISO", we get a "SourceMage yy/mm/dd ISO
> > featuring Sorcery 1.0" that has the stable grimoire at yy/mm/dd..
> > 
> > Just a thought...
> > 
> > -- 
> > Best regards,
> >  Mark                            mailto:msasgl AT msa-enterprises.com
> > 
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