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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> Hmm, also I had meant to point out that one of the reasons why sorcery is 
> not
> detecting failures is due to structures like this:
> if [ -x BUILD ] ; then
> persistant_load
> . BUILD
> persistant_save
> else
> default_build
> fi &&
> 
> The fi seems to carry the result of the last command run, which used to
> be BUILD and is not persistant_save (which doesn't really fail). So when
> BUILD fails, the return value isn't passed along through && operators.
> 
> In my build split sorcery I've fixed it. I think I will just submit my code
> tonight unless there are any new problems people have found with it.
> 
> After that we'll have a week or two of testing and then make a
> 1.10 sorcery stable release.
> 
> Any obections to the plan? Thanks to all those who have tried out my
> build split code and gotten back to me about issues. Hopefully we
> wont have any surprises down the road.

Sounds good to me. Shall we coordinate the grimoire team to have the easy 
spells
split by then as well?

-sandalle

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