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["David C. Haley" <dhaley AT tamsco.com>]

I really don't have a probem with waiting until the features and
enhancements have been added into sorcery. After all this time I think
waiting a tad bit longer for a release full of features and enhancements
isn't too much to ask IMHO.

SilverS

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:16:40 -0700
Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com> wrote:

> Devel sorcery is begining to reach a critical mass of features and I
> would like some feedback on what work I should complete before calling
> it 1.11.
> 
> Users of devel have been enjoying (or not) that depends info is
> only commited to the state records when a spell actually installs
> successfully. However the major drawback for that is if the spell
> fails, you lose all the answers you gave about optional depends and
> such. I have a rough plan on how to implement it and make that area of
> sorcery nice and friendly. However it will take me a week or two given
> my evening coding schedule.
> 
> Along with that the md5 checker in cleanse --fix is a little to strict
> so I think for now we should revert to just cripple it to check only
> binaries until theres a better infrastructure in place for tracking
> files shared between spells.
> 
> After that theres one or two minor enhancements I can add in short
> notice.
> 
> So I guess the question I pose is, do we want to wait for me to get
> the libdepends queries spiffed up in a week or two, or push devel into
> test sooner and thus release stable (without that feature) sooner.
> 
> If we go without that feature I can code it up after words and have a
> very minimal 1.12 in September. If we go with the feature I would
> imagine that the next stable (with many more improvements) will be
> done in october.
> 
> As for those future features, my rough mental list is as follows:
> sorcery upgrade hooks (so we can change persistent state data)
> *the infamous "installed grimoire" (more state info)
> *delve (run individual spell commands, allows lower level control)
> *bless (menu generator)
> *better resurrect support
> *yet more depends "stuff" (dealing with failures, cross grimoire
> depends,
>  dispel, and maybe sub-depends)
> *possible adjustments to triggers
> 
> What do we want to be around for iso releases? Or specifically the
> september iso release?
> 
> -Andrew
> 
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