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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:16:50PM -0700, seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:
> I've done a first round through the grimoire and a lot of spells were 
> skipped due to brokenness, so I expect a re-run will find even more 
> issues.  Through the weekend I will triage the rest of the bugs filed, 
> but I have one question to ask of everybody:
> 
> Should the spells that depend on z-rejected spells be moved until they 
> can have that restriction lifted?

This is probably a good idea if it's a hard dependency, since a hard
dependency on a z-rejected spell basically means that the whole thing is
non-Free, even if the spell in question itself has a Free license.

> There are spells that depend on a z-rejected spell that aren't rejected 
> because they could conceivably be run on code that wasn't rejected if we 
> had a spell for it and got it to work with it.  I'm talking mostly about 
> anything we have that's java-based.  I'm inclined just to say that java 
> should be its own grimoire (sequestered) until we can get the spells to 
> actually build/run in gcj or some other java compiler/runtime.  Thus 
> they're provisionally rejected, in a way since they can't be built with 
> our system without a rejected spell.
 
Making java its own grimoire could be interesting from a code-reuse
point too. There are several java systems that can provide an
environment for java programs to work with. Not all are equally
powerful, but having all that in a seperate grimoire could make it
easier to support them.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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