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

Ignore that, I found the feature request part of the bugs thing.

Cheers, Duane

Duane Malcolm wrote:
> 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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