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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:20:23PM -0700, Jason Flatt wrote:
> On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:19 pm, Andrew wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Why not have an interim release that includes the hooks only?  I realize 
> that 
> this would be a major logistics nightmare, but I was just curious.

I discussed this with Paul and its too complex of a task to accomplish
on short notice, and rather than push back the release of stable sorcery
with a number of well needed features.

> 
> > 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.
> 
> Am I right to ASSuME that the code which makes this happen is somehow 
> removed 
> after the first cast/cleanse run or will it just keep checking for some new 
> variable stored in one of the config files?

It will touch some file and then check for its existance. Then future
versions of sorcery will have that stuff removed.