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

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:56:37PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:
> > I agree that the first one sounds like the quickest and easiest way to go,
> > but 
> > I think the second one is the more correct way to go.  I also think that 
> > modifying sorcery and spells to work around this problem is extra work 
> > that 
> > adds unnecessary complication.  We have enough other things to do already 
> > and
> > 
> > creating special grimoires will do solve the problem nicely.  But that's 
> > just
> > 
> > me.  :^)
> 
> Sounds like people prefere the second way (as do I). ;) How about we do 
> plan #1
> for now, and then work on plan #2 as we have time (shouldn't take much 
> longer
> than #1, but #1 facilitates #2)?
 
I'd really prefer a flag in DETAILS saying on which architectures the spell
works.
Making arch specific grimoires makes the whole thing a lot more
complicated, especially thinking about the future with more than the
current x86 and ppc archs. E.g. if a spell work on x86 and ppc, but not
on sparc and arm, we'd need to maintain two seperate version of the
spell (one for ppc, one for x86), with a flag we'd just mark the spell
working on x86 and ppc and maintain it in one place.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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