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["Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

im sorry. but The Great Rewrite. that cracks me up. LOL! okay im done, 
sorry!

Jeremy

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Dufflebunk wrote:

> This has been discussed several times on this list. In a nutshell:
> It would be nice.
> It would be a large modification to the scripts
> Versioning has no standard. ie < is not a well defined symbol w.r.t.
> versions.
> What to do about several versions providing /sbin/foo.
> 
> The two last problems have solutions, although perhaps not elegant ;)
> However, the changes necessary to properly add it in is large enough that I
> think it would be better to wait until after The Great Rewrite (coming Real
> Soon Now).
> 
> --------- Original Message --------
> From: eric AT sandall.us
> To:  Source Mage - Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [SM-Discuss] Versioned dependencies
> Date: 02/01/03 15:53
> 
> >
> > 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?
> >
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