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[Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>]

> On Friday January 3 2003 09:43, Julian v. Bock wrote:
> Hi
>
> >>>>> "ES" == Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> writes:
>
> ES> I think SMGL needs to add versioned dependencies to its abilities,
> ES> though this will make both sorcery and spell-writing more complex.
> ES> My main reason is for spells like GNUCash (requires an older
> ES> version of guile).
>
> [...]
>
> ES> Thoughts?
>
> I doubt it is worth the trouble. While it might be useful for gnucash,
> pango, etc., these are only a handful of spells, and implementing and
> using this stuff consistently is a major effort.
>
> It will complicate things a lot (remember the 'light dependency
> system' feature of sorcerer?) and it will cause problems. sorcery and
> the grimoire become slowly stable and if this goes down the road again
> because we simply lack the manpower (unlike gentoo) it would suck
> greatly.
>
I don't want to get too mixed up in the list discussions, but this has been 
running on a bit so will state a small fact for now.

We will not be doing this before 1.0, and post-1.0 involves a new design 
document that will of course result in a large rewrite (you can see this as 
restructuring and additions to sorcery and all relevent commands). This will 
be necessary to create structure.

We (the Source Mage Leaders) are working on preliminary discussions about 
this 
very subject... don't worry, it will come out at the right time and when we 
have something concrete to present. Until that time (post 1.0) we have enough 
to do getting it all online for 1.0 so I propose that we table this until 
that time? I promise to keep things in the open, just want to have the 
complete story mapped out before presenting it to the world at large... deal? 
;-)

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