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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:44:46AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> > 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.

I think it would be nice to have that in sorcery, with one additional
requirement: it has to be possible to overwrite it from a spell, i.e.
set some variable in a spell DETAILS that tells sorcery not to use the
section function overrides.

> 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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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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