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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Cleanse in Stable
  • Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:23:33 -0700

Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> I'll recap just so we all know the issues:
>
> We need everyone to run cleanse after we release sorcery with full depends.
>
> We cannot guarantee that everyone will and so we are doing this so we
> dont have a bunch of unhappy smgl'ers who didnt get the memo and now
> can't cast anything.
>
>
> Sorcery upgrade and system-update internally only run code from the
> old sorcery, they do no jumping to new code with the notable except of
> running cast/scribe. So in order to make the upgrade run other 'stuff'
> we need the aforementioned post upgrade hooking system.
>
> We cannot implement upgrade hooks between now and the time we'd like
> to have the next sorcery release (and they wouldn't work until the next
> update after that anyway). In a perfect world this would solve the
> problem. So thus, using them to solve the cleanse issue is not feasable.
>
> So we're going with this temporary hacked in fix to run cleanse on the
> first time cast is run (after the update). The hack is for this release
> only and will be removed for the next major sorcery release.

Sounds fine to me after Paul cleared things up for me. ;)

-sandalle

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