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["Jose Bernardo Silva" <jbs AT bandos.homelinux.com>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 21:08:37 -0700, Andrew wrote
[...]
> As for the third option, we teach sorcery about platform dependencies.
> 
> Theres two parts to this prooblem. The first is implementing a function
> during dependency groveling to determine if a spell is castable on 
> the current platform, if it is then great, if not then the spell 
> fails its dependency groveling.
[...]

I'd like a slightly different approach - one that allows me to solve bugs like
5485 [0] without much trouble, and that would be sorcery allowing the spell to
choose the action according to the arch. It could be as simple as a ARCH file
with lists of different override spell files by architecture [1], using the
default ones where not specified; it might be more complicated, with sorcery
functions called to check the architecture inside every spell file that needed
checking.
What do you think?

[0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5485
[1] a example of the file might be structured like this:
---------------------
x86_64=DEPENDS.x86_64,DETAILS.X86_64
PPC=BUILD.PPC
---------------------

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