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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
  • Cc: nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>, <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] qt-x11 casts finally
  • Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:54:08 -0500 (EST)

This is the sort of theng that resurection is good for.

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Casey Harkins wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, nealbirch wrote:
> > in order to get qt-x11 to cast (without deleting libfreetype files by
> > hand, anyway) I had to dispel pango and Xft2, at which point it went on
> > it's merry way and finished. you may just need to dispel Xft2, cast
> > qt-x11 and then cast Xft2 again.
> >
> > Like to drive me nuts.
>
> Maybe sorcery could use some sort functions for "hiding" another spell why
> one is being cast. In this case, the qt-x11 spell could specify "hide
> pango; hide Xft2". The j2sdk-src and xfree86 spells could use a variation
> to hide a single file as well (jni.h and ncurses.h respectively).
>
> The advantage to sorcery doing this instead of having the spells do it, is
> sorcery could probably "unhide" the file(s) if casting was interrupted?
> Does sorcery currently handle signals, in particular, does it perform some
> sort of cleanup if casting is interrupted?
>
> Just some ideas, what do other people think?
>
> -casey
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