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["David C. Haley" <dhaley AT hot.rr.com>]

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On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:21:49 +0300
Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 14:13, you wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 12:25, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> > > Do any of the sorcery branches make any use of UPDATED anymore?
> > > If not, maybe it could be reused. If UPDATED would be what its
> > > name implies, a date when the spell was last version updated, it
> > > would be easy to make an index of a grimoire to see which spells
> > > have been neglected. (Or is there already an easy way to do this?)
> > >
> > > Juuso
> >
> > How would you see which are version-neglected? As I see it, you'd
> > have to have an up to date list to compare to anyway, so plain
> > spell versions could be used.
> 
> That's true. But I wasn't thinking of a definite know-it-all version
> sniffer. A simple list of chronologically arranged UPDATED entries
> would help to pinpoint _possible_ targets of attention:
> 
> 17760704 spell1
> 20000101 spell2
> 20040506 spell3
> 
> "Hmm, maybe I should check out if there's a newer version of spell1
> out."

It could be very possible that you (or teh person that does this in
regards to checking for needed updates) could be chacing Version
Ghosts.

Only reason I say this is having looked at a few spells recently for
teh purposes of seeing if they needed updates one is around 4 monthes
old but none the less still up to date.
 
With that said I do not know how prevalent this is with other spells
and programs.

> Juuso

David C. Haley

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