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  • From: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>
  • To: Ryan Abrams <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>
  • Cc: Nathan Doss <ndoss AT mtlaurel.org>, sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org, sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire]Re: [SM-Sorcery]RFC: Somewhat major change in sorcery
  • Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:43:16 -0700

What about the spell knowing when it needs to update or not. I understand
for devel, this will be accomplished with a LIFESPAN tag. However for
stable I don't see how this can be done. Since no "update" will be
detected (the whole point is not to have to update the DETAILS file
right?)...

Also, how about versioning within the branch you have installed? Is
gaze going to have a new functionality to see which branch an installed
spell is on?

Is this going to be ready before 4pm Pacific Time today?

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:35:51AM -0500, Ryan Abrams wrote:
> Dufflebunk suggested something similar, and I am fine with doing that
> if it lessens the impact. The one thing we would have to do then is
> have sorcery use two different config storage files, as sorcery
> routinely trashes the DEPENDS_CONFIG/SPELL file during CONFIGURE. I
> wouldnt want to determine when and where that happens... the workaround
> would be like a META_CONFIG/SPELL file or something. (or maybe
> DEPENDS_CONFIG/SPELL.meta)
>
> The other thing about that is that we then essentially have two CONFIG
> files. Which is pretty odd design.
>
> I think just flipping the order is cleaner, assuming that there are no
> weird hacks in spell CONFIGURE files that rely on DETAILS values to
> already be set. That's one of the reasons I put this out here on the
> list... to see if any guru's can find any places where this would break
> stuff.
>
> -Ryan
>
>
> On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 11:22 PM, Nathan Doss wrote:
>
> >
> > Ryan wrote:
> >> I am writing to ask about something I think may add a lot of
> >> flexibility to spellwriting. Its a rather big change in cast.
> >>
> >> Lets run CONFIGURE /before/ running DETAILS.
> >>
> >> [deleted]
> >>
> >> In any case, this is a big change design wise (though small
> >> code-wise)
> >
> > What about creating a new METACONFIGURE file (needs a better name)
> > that gets sourced before running DETAILS. This would be a small
> > change design-wise (all current spells would continue to work as is)
> > and a small change code-wise (no different than changing the order
> > of running CONFIGURE/DETAILS).
> >
> > --
> > Nathan Doss ndoss AT mtlaurel.org
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