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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] sorcery, and beyond
  • Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:28:00 -0700

You can of course put that command into a little script with some short
clever name and use that in the meantime.

-Andrew

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:41:58AM +1200, Duane Malcolm wrote:
> 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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