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[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

On Thursday 10 July 2003 07:48 pm, Hamish Greig wrote:
> 
> Having tinderboxes dedicated to rebuilding the grimoire with an update
> between each rebuild would help this but i don't have the hardware to
> dedicate for this (unfortunately).
> 


Since I'm not /exactly/ sure what a tinderbox is/does, I may be off base 
here, 
but on the assumption that it is basically a machine which simply goes 
through the entire grimoire (all grimoires?) and casts each and every spell, 
there is still the high possibility that there will be bugs that will be 
undetected.  Many of the spells have weird or complicated dependencies that 
may not show any problems during an automated cast.

Also, dependencies may be installed for one spell and not removed that are 
needed for another spell which does not include them.  That bug would not 
show up, 'cause the packages were installed by a previous spell.

I don't think it's a bad idea, but I do think it will need some serious 
thought and hand-holding until whoever is doing it is fairly certain that 
most (if not all) of those odd situations will be found.

Now I think I need to stop trying to reply to e-mail and go to sleep.


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