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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting 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.

You mean Sorcery module, not spell, right?

Not that I'm against this, but is there a problem with the GPL'd code we
have?

-sandalle

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