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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Eric Womack <eric AT sourcemage.com>
  • Cc: Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] SHORT descriptions
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:13:45 -0000

No. It's not flexible enough, or if it made so, it would be escape
character hell. Moreover, things are not even close to well defined
enough to begin to design such a format. At least, that's my feeling
right now. Perhaps in a year or two, or once we have a proper API...

On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 20:04, Eric Womack wrote:
> > That's perfectly valid bash, it is more than a little difficult for a
> > simple compiler to handle.
> >
> > I wrote a one liner to find all of the spells w/ this problem:
> >
> > for i in /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/*/*/DETAILS; do (eval $(grep
> > "SHORT=" $i ) 2>/dev/null || echo "BAD $i") ; done
> > BAD /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/audio/alsa-driver-virmidi/DETAILS
> > BAD /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/graphics/gltt/DETAILS
> > BAD /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/kde/kdebindings/DETAILS
> > BAD /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/science/euler/DETAILS
> > BAD /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/utils/dmx4linux/DETAILS
> > BAD /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/windowmanagers/wmsensormon/DETAILS
> >
> > I figure it's not currently considered a bug since it doesn't break
> > anything and most of the time it's unnoticable. However, this is
> > supposed to be a /short/ description. Should this be considered a bug
> > (and if yes, could the spells be fixed please)?
>
> I'll accept this as a bug and fix mine right now.
>
> The whole grimoire as a single (comma delimited?) file that could be
> operated
> on as a database has been discussed in the past, and would be great to
> bring
> up again.
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