Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

sm-grimoire - Re: [SM-Grimoire] grimoire semantics

sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] grimoire semantics
  • Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 12:06:46 -0700

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 02:52:49PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>
> >>TRIGGERS are made for this kind of thing, please use them instead of
> >>hacking up POST_INSTALLS and such. :)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >i wouldnt call it hacking up POST_INSTALLS, it was just a fix which
> >apparently worked and solved a problem temporarily, as you said, a spell
> >is no good if its broken.
> >
> The spell wasn't broken, it works very well.

okay fine, other things werent working well with it. happy now?

>
> >perhaps we ought to do what debian is rumored to be doing with their
> >source mechanisms. Essentially if one spell needs upgrading all of its
> >
> That's what we have TRIGGERS for as Eric mentioned.
>

well obviously we either need more triggers or we need to have some
better way of recompiling things when stuff like this happens because
obviously what we have doesnt always work (or we wouldnt be having
this problem).

> I'm sorry but I had to revert your change because I think it's not safe.
> I had trouble with db during migration (months ago) and during
> development of parts of this spell, and I'm familiar with what exactly
> is being done in Apache for instance to deal with 4.0 and 4.1
> differences, therefore I can't see how this change solves the problem.
> Moreover, I gave my reasons on why this change may corrupt users'
> databases. Please don't take this personal.

i really dont care. i was just trying to resolve a problem as swiftly
as possible. as i have stated repeatedly: if you have a better solution
go ahead and do it, i really dont care.




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page