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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

hi,

The idea sounds like fun. But I wonder if it would make helping newbies 
more difficult and confusing. For example, you'd ask them to "summon" 
some spell and they ask what "summon" is. Then you'd have to know what 
the equivalent for "summon" is for their theme.

Just throwing a thought out there.

Cheers, Duane.

Jason Flatt wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2004 9:24 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
>
> > Quoting Josh Fuhs <fuhs AT purdue.edu>:
> >
> > > Wow, this project has more than I thought it did.
> > >
> > > It seems that making the change to allow users to use sorcery would
> > > require a
> > > bit more than changing the install path and removing the 'su'. As it is,
> > > there
> > > is absolute certainty that whoever is using sorcery has superuser
> > > priveleges. So
> > > caches, grimoires, etc. can be trusted.
> > >
> > > It would be ideal if regular users could be given (almost) all the
> > > functionality
> > > of the superuser (modify their own grimoire, cast spells, dispel, etc),
> > > but without compromising the integrity of the superuser system.
> > >
> > > Perhaps you've already accounted for this in the system, and I'm just
> > > rambling
> > > about a lot of nothing.
> > >
> > > If I find myself with a significant amount of free time, I'll look
> > > through the
> > > source. It would be nice to know where I could find documents with
> > > respect to
> > > the requirements and design of the system.
> > >
> > > Josh
> >
> > Most of those would require a little more abstraction to our current
> > Sorcery than is in there, yes, but it shouldn't take much. Just make two
> > layers, one for normal (root) operation (which it does now), the other for
> > a normal user, who could have his own config settings, would need his own
> > writeable cache (but could still use the global one for reading, along with
> > configs so that it's not required that he have a whole copy of Sorcery).
> > Our Sorcery Team is looking for volunteers, so if you'd even like to help
> > with the current setup you could, just to get more familiar with the
> > internals, which may make implementing your idea easier. :)
> >
> > -sandalle
>
>
> OK, now this thread is starting to go down a path I have been contemplating 
> quite a bit, lately.
>
> It seems to me that Source Mage is a prime candidate for creating a kind of 
> themed Linux distribution.  (No groans, please.)  :^)  It would take a bit of 
> work and would be more of a feature request for the 2.0 version, but I think 
> it would be possible to make the commands, terminology, etc. used in Source 
> Mage generic enough and abstracted enough that it would be possible to apply 
> different themes to the various parts of SMGL.
>
> One could make the commands, terminology, etc. more specific to LOTR, for 
> example.  Or take it into the other genre, and use terms in Star Wars or Star 
> Trek or ...  The default, of course, would be Source Mage.
>
> Thoughts?