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[Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>]

Dufflebunk wrote:
> 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 :/

Well, like I said in another email, I'm just trying to get the ideas 
flowing.  We can eliminate the bad ideas later, but for now, I'd like to 
get ideas down so we can begin to take care of the problem.

We'd still need a way to specify the suggested grimoire needed, which 
this would still do.  Would we really want to prompt to see if they want 
to download the alternate grimoire.  Maybe if it was an optional 
depends, but for a required depends I think we should just download the 
thing.

Geoff