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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

> I am working on several spells which will probably go into a separate 
> section. 
> Rather than put identical BUILD files in each spell, I would like to share 
> a 
> common file at the section level.  
> I could do this by putting symlinks in each spell, but would perforce 
> accept 
> it?  Or we could add a feature to sorcery, so that if a script {BUILD, 
> INSTALL, PRE_BUILD, FINAL} were not present in the spell directory, sorcery 
> would look for it in the section directory before applying the 
> default_build, 
> etc.
> 
> 
> This would also be useful for things such as PERL and PYTHON, where most 
> spells have identical scripts
> 
> For example, we have a directive in BUILD_API or DETAILS which says 
> SCRIPTS={spell,section,default}
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
providing a defined place for spell writers to hook in their own versions
of common functions to override the sorcery defaults was something I
had mentioned earlier. The architecture of cast makes it fairly easy
to override any sort of build pipeline function right now. There is
currently a GRIMOIRE_API file that is valid in the section and grimoire
level to provide a default value to BUILD_API (although you can put
all sorts of other DETAILS related variables in there too if you wanted
(wink wink nudge nudge).

I dont have a problem with adding another file to that list which can
redefine default_build (and others). Its fairly easy for me to just add
the extra few lines to load_build_api to source these new files if
they exist.

This of course wont be used for overriding depends related stuff as that
is all run at a different phase of the game.

Of course Im pretty sure you can make symlinks in p4, or you can look
at the php-pear section which does something like this.

Its up to the grimoire lead what way we go about it, but Im more than
happy to add this into sorcery.

-Andrew

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