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["Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote :

> All,
> 
> I was going to reply with lots of negative remarks to the entire
> "layout" thread, but thought better. Here's my suggestion: organize the
> spells alphabetically by the first letter of their name, with spells
> starting from digits forbidden. So, we'll have sections a, b, c, ..., z;
> no capital letters.
> It's not personalized, which is good (I find the entire discussion about
> going back to explicit maintainers pointless). It's not requiring
> changes in sorcery, also good. It makes known spells trivial to find,
> which is good for maintainers. It's very straightforward and easy to
> understand, yet another advantage.
> Finally, the advantage is that we can stop wasting energy on that subject.
> 
> As a maintainer, I would benefit from two sorts of tools. First, I'd
> benefit from a tool which updates the spell automatically. Second, I
> would benefit from the tool which would tell me what spells need
> updating. I would like to see a local program similar to a
> distrowatch.com's chart with versions out of sync marked as such, and
> with an additional button: a button that says "update to new version and
> cast". This would make updates very easy and allow more people to test them.
> Two more tools would further improve maintainers' lives and make this
> role more approachable for users. One, creation of new spells. Not what
> we have today, but a tool that understands Java, Python, Perl, Ruby,
> autoconf-less spells with their standard install mechanism; the tool
> that after casting finds out about all dependencies and updates DEPENDS,
> etc. Two, I'd want the test farm back with prometheus running. Maybe
> with an option to run in chroot so regular users with spare CPU cycles
> could do the testing without hosing their system. Something like a
> prometheus-screensaver. Harmless but useful.
> 
> Which of these problems is better served by a grimoire layout change? I
> thought so.
> 
> Sergey.
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I'd be happy to have quill extended with various stuff...
I do plan on adding a lot of other stuff in...
Like cvs supported spells and such but I simply can't find the time
to write the stuff in...

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