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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

Hi,

Can I request a simple feature? I look at the activity log a lot using 
"less /var/log/sorcery/activity". Can We include this in sorcery as 
"gaze log"? Is this possible? I was going to file a bug but it's not 
really a bug.

Cheers, Duane.

Andrew 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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