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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:03:47PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Apr 05, Andrew [afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com] wrote:
> > [snip another proposal]
> 
> Heh, so we basically have 3 approaches to this (not surprising) :
> 
> 1. one based on a new user perspective (because I am still a new user and
>    I'm pretty sure I'm mostly asking for what I'm looking for as a new user)
> 
> 2. one based on the (legitimate) needs of the spell maintainers
> 
> 3. one based on the (legitimate) needs of the sorcery system maintainers

To be clear I wasnt saying may organizational strategy was for the
needs of sorcery, sorcery doesnt care at all what sections things go
in, but spells by their nature inherit from sections in a natural way,
I was just trying to bring that point to the surface.

I dont necesarily see 2 and 3 as distinct categories given my explaination
above and sorcery's stance on sections, if people want to forego give up
the inheritence advantages by organizing sections in a way that doesnt
lend itself thats fine. My point is just that we can simultaneously have
a grimoire layout that utilizes section inheritence, which also in some
cases makes life easier on developers, and have symlinked layouts that
suit the user/developers needs while using file system level commands.

So, yes, my explaination (to me at least) would be sane for all '3' goals.

> 
> Is there a sane way to provide for the needs of all 3?
> 
> > Now, respond with why that idea sucks and lets continue talking about this
> > for another few weeks until we eventually all get tired and do nothing,
> > ready? go!
> 
> Yeah, that's pretty much what I expect too.  So let's keep in mind that at
> some point we have to do *something*; this all started around the question
> of getting some maintainers for the spells in the utils section, and that's
> not solving itself while we debate.



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