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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

After over 1200 spells compiled, I'm checking back in to talk about the 
numbers.

This is just from on my dual opteron box...

Approximately 1/3rds of the spells are broken, but not all of them are 
their own fault.  Only about 1/8 are broke broken.  The rest are skipped 
due to not being able to satisfy their (most likely) correctly-listed 
dependencies.  Keep in mind that many of these spells are bitrotting -- 
they are never used due to only one person wanting them.  According to 
the ledger, we find that only a few hundred are actually consistently 
used by people.  Also keep in mind that the vast majority of these 
errors are missing dependencies or bad md5s.  Stuff that's actually 
compile broken are few and far between.

I still have about three to four times this many to compile.  I figure 
it will take a week or two if things go ok and the box is ok running 
24/7.  If I let my box go gangbusters forever, I figure we can have 
releases every month or two.  With the volunteers, we might be able to 
increase the testing rate so that we can release sooner, but of course, 
testing isn't so much the limit as how fast we can put fixes in and fix 
difficult bugs.

Seth