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  • From: Arjan Bouter <a_bouter AT ezrs.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Architecture-dependent spells
  • Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 02:46:58 +0200

On Thu, 13 May 2004 19:40:11 +0200
Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net> wrote:

> 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.

I agree,
I guess it's also easier when writing new spells.
Instead of submitting a spell for each architecture you can specify on which
it
runs.

Arjan

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