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

Jason Flatt said:
> On Thursday 10 July 2003 03:02 pm, Geoffrey Derber wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
>
> I respectfully disagree.  I do sometimes kill a cast when I see a depends,
> required or not, that I'm not ready to install.  I think I would want to
> know
> that a spell was going to install a grimoire and give me the option of
> bailing out if I chose to.

I agree, automatic is not the way, we want to query the user so that they
can /choose/ what they want to do, we don't want to force our opinions
onto them.

-sandalle

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