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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>:
> Howdy all,
> 
> Thought it might be nicer than just a changelog to detail the fixes to
> the latest release of sorcery in user terms. Where possible I have
> listed the developer names so you can thank them personally on irc or in
> the lists:
> 
> * various spells have now been provided with proper group and user id's
>   (reserved id's).
> * some speedups in the 'gaze search' function, also caches for faster
>   repeat searches (Neuron).
> * new sourceforge mirror: http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net (sorrow).
> * general optimization speedups (alley_cat).
> * quite a bit of new documentation for bashdoc generation (sorrow).
> * cleanups and better handling of the user and group addition funtions
>   for spells (erics).
> * failing z-rejected casts no longer stop the entire cast (dufflebunk).
> * spell writers can now optionally pass a home directory and default
>   shell when creating new accounts for spells (Neuron).
> * sorcery menu freezing fixed (dufflebunk).
> * sorcery sound themes selection is now menu driven in sorcery (erics).
> * sorcery menu option for setting a nice level (process cpu usage) for
>   sorcery processes (alley_cat).
> * a few fixes to the C(XX)FLAGS.
> * ldconfig is run after resurrecting a spell to ensure proper library
>   setup.
> * Adam Clark's mirror added to the fallback list and LEAPFORWARD_URL
>   added to allow user to define (by hand currently) the default fallback
>   url.
> * spell writers can set the conflicting spell question to 'y' by default
>   to ensure auto spell removal (for example when a spell is needs to be
>   removed due to no longer existing), the default remains 'n'.
> * gaze html now provides xhtml/css validated output (Asha`man / rycee).
> * gaze orphans no longer lists exiled spells (Asha`man).
> * gaze checkmd5s added, allows user to verify spell md5's (swoolley).
> * all sorcery scripts (tools) allow user to view help w/o root password.
> 
> I hope this helps and that I did not forget anyone's hard work.

I like this idea. ;) And if it's not too much extra work I would like to see
this made standard for Sorcery releases.

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/  #196285  |  http://www.shock.wsu.edu/

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