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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Andrew Stitt wrote:
> The sorcery team has been working on improving on_cast triggers. The
> work is mostly complete, and I think its ready for broader testing and
> feedback from the development/user-base.
>
> The main improvement was to integrate (on_cast) triggers with dependency
> sorting. In the old implementation, an on_cast trigger was effectively a
> cast -c after the triggering spell completed. This leads to many spells
> being cast multiple times. For example, if zlib casts, it will trigger
> a number of casts. During a rebuild, those spells are already going to
> be cast.
>
> The new implementation puts triggers into the same dependency tree and
> works hard to only cast a trigger once (if there arent any dependency
> loops, its guaranteed). As a consequence, triggered spells are inspected
> at the same time as other spells, as opposed to being a seperate cast
> entirely.
>
> I've got this code working and have made a temporary sorcery tarball
> availible as sorcery-trigger.tar.bz2 on the mirror. To use it, set your
> sorcery branch to 'triggers', then do sorcery update. Try casting zlib :-)
>
> I'll probably integrate things to devel for a wider audience soon,
> I'd like to get some preliminary testing first though.
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Thanks for all the work Andrew! I'll try testing it and providing
commentary as you asked when I'm more awake tomorrow.

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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