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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Dufflebunk said:
> The problem with doing it that way is what about spells in z-rejected
> (for example) which depend on a spell in devel or test or stable? Only
> one could be put there. Or what if someone has a newer version of a
> spell in their personal grimoire, would cast ignore that version if
> another grimoire was specified? What if people start publishing their
> own grimoires of personal spells and naming becomes a problem?
>
> That sounds more negative that I meant it to. The idea is a good one. I
> looked into doing something like that a little while ago, but ran into
> the problems I mentioned above. The only way around them is to first see
> if there's a spell, then if not, tell the user the suggested grimoire is
> needed (and prompt for a scribe add perhaps),  but that seems kludgy to
> me :/

Heh, hadn't thought of those.  :)  Yes, perhaps checking if the spell is
available first, then requesting to add a grimoire second.  As for
devel/test/stable, we could just call those 'default' or some such for
these purposes, or we could assume (most likely safely) that one of those
(at least) is installed, so we'd never say 'depends default/<spell>'  (I
meant to mention that condition before, otherwise we'd have to change
every spell's DEPENDS, and that would be a Bad Thing(TM)).

-sandalle

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