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[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

On Saturday 12 February 2005 06:40 am, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Le Samedi 12 Février 2005 15:24, Jason Flatt a écrit :
> > On Saturday 12 February 2005 02:59 am, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> > > It seems that several people are not aware of the new configure stuff
> > > and think the >0.50 versions are buggy....
> > > I think we should add a comment at the end of install, perhaps during a
> > > month or two.... And also copy the new udev.rules in
> > > /etc/udev/udev.rules I can take care of that if needed.
> >
> > What about for someone who does an update after not doing one for a month
> > and the information blends in with all the other updates that are done
> > and scrolls off the screen while s/he's busy not paying attention?  I
> > think for something that serious, it should go in the PREPARE file,
> > possibly with a pause that requires a response, so they know about it
> > before the cast begins.
>
> Mmmm.... Yes it should be better... You're obviously right... But you
> wanted to say PRE_BUILD, don't you ? Since afaik PREPARE no longer exists
> in BUILD_API 2 ??
>
> How can I do this properly ?? Ask the user if is right for updating udev,
> with default to no ?? How can I exit the spell properly ??

Unless something changed I was unaware of, PREPARE is still a valid file [0]. 
 
The second BUILD API only affects from BUILD onward (the last-half-ish of the 
cast).  PREPARE is the first file that is executed, so I would want to see 
the warning there while I was responding to all the spells about 
configuration and dependency changes.

I would probably do something like you suggested.  I think that using 'exit' 
is a big no-no, so you would probably use something like 'return 1'.  What I 
usually do in situations like this is scan the grimoire for spells that are 
doing something similar and follow those examples.

[0] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Spellbook

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