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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] How to handle multi-version spells
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:26:20 -0700

Quoting "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>:
> You're a developer Eric, so is David who wants this feature for httpd-dev,
> so
> are all the others that think about using such a feature. Just because you
> can
> integrate your daily routine into sorcery doesn't mean you should.
>
> All I want is to make this "feature" (I don't think it really qualifies
> as such,
> like knife without a handle is an unfinished product and not a "feature
> knife")
> less accessible to users, and make them willing to use it actively (by
> casting
> the spell) instead of passively (by updating it together with more safe
> spells). Strictly speaking, the difference would be to ask users who desire
> such behavior to explicitly do it.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding because isn't this what was proposed? The user
has
to /choose/ to get the automatic-updates (e.g. VERSION=$(date)) that you don't
like.

-sandalle

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