Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

> >
> > I hate attachments that make you download and open them. But isn't that
> > correct that a huge part of the Prometheus output is pasted into the
> > initial bug description?

the attachments are sometimes absolutly huge, so in order to keep
our bugzilla database from using up too much space I decided to bzip
the complete log, although by popular demand I may change that to an
optional bzipage of the full log.

> 
> prometheus is a good piece of software, but it isn't HAL :) it puts a lot 
> of 
> data into its reports but then attaches the entire log from the cast/s just 
> for further reference. Sometimes the actual error is only in the attachment 
> for five+ reasons.
> 1) it failed an md5 check
this is a prometheus bug and I will add support to future versions of
prometheus for it

> 2) cast went past the original error (file not found etc) and the bug shows 
> the related failure further into the cast
is there a way to formalize what this looks like so I could parse for it?

> 3) a depends syntax error (depends provides not correct)
> 4) something that stops the cast prematurely like a check for something in 
> BUILD and exit if it isn't found
What does sorcery do in these cases? If there is a pattern matchable
response I may be able to catch it and throw it into the reports.

> 5) a CONFIGURE query that awaits input from a non-existant user
iirc prometheus will give up eventually, but may not talk about it in
the reports, has this been the case? If not thats another bug that I will
fix. In either case this is a good point and I'll add it to the reporting.
> 
> The handling of these situations will be improved in the future I expect(I 
> have yet to fully come to terms with prometheus innards and Andrew is busy 
> in 
> RL)
yep, RL is going to change gears in one week for me. So hopefully I'll
have more free time to crank all this stuff out. As well as fire up a
prometheus cluster of my own.

Anyways, thank you both for willingness to help (ie do all the real work).

Onward to stability!

Cheers
-Andrew

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