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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

Since March 2002, we've come a long way in coding sorcery.  I've run 
ESR's comparator against the old Kyle Codebase since when Anders first 
committed the sorcery code to perforce from version 0.1.1

http://smgl.positivism.org:8080/files/sorcery.compare.txt

As you can see we have:

1) some config file holdovers (a list of variables, not copyrightable)

2) dialogrc (not copyrightable)

3) README is the same (could be rewritten)

4) mirrors are the same (not copyrightable, database again)

5) some argument handling code vestiges (very minor)

6) documentation similarity

7) some small snippets from the build api

8) some snippets of the OLDLIBS handling during dispel

9) some rarely used commands in gaze (snapshot handling and gaze installed)

10) almost all of cabal

11) vcast

12) much of the sorcery dialog front end interface and some functions:
  show_files, add_pkgs, file_list, remove_pkgs, grep_install_logs,
  goodbye, background_execute
  
13) parts of libdownload and url_http (undergoing rewrite now)

14) /etc/pam.d handling

15) modified by SA backup and not-reaping logic

16) the color on/off logic

17) report printing

18) remnants of early FUZZ support

19) more snippets of OLDLIBS handling

20) small snippets from libsorcery

21) part of the sustained list (not copyrightable)

94% of the code in current sorcery is totally new as you can see by the 
numbers in the url above.

I wonder if somebody could rewrite cabal from scratch, that's pretty 
much the only thing of size untouched.  We could move that into its own 
spell, too.

Seth

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