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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

For this to work would we need to keep several version of different 
spells around then?

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

Eric Sandall wrote:
> I think SMGL needs to add versioned dependencies to its abilities, though
> this will make both sorcery and spell-writing more complex.  My main
> reason is for spells like GNUCash (requires an older version of guile). 
> Many of our spells already partially support this (automake, gtk+*, etc.)
> as they install into ${SPELL}-${VERSION} directories, then create a
> symlink from ${SPELL}.  We would need to remove this symlink option and
> add (probably to the configure) the location of the versioned libraries
> the spell requires.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle