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  • From: Joe Menola <menola AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] proliferation of *-cvs spells
  • Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 19:40:05 -0600

On Sunday 07 December 2003 6:07 pm, Paul Mahon wrote:
> You should probably take a look at scribbler. It brings an end to having
> to swap grimories and put spells on hold by creating a personal grimoire
> at the highest priority. You have scribber add the spells to your
> personal grimoire that would otherwise mess up.
>
> Creating sub spells creates a whole new set of questions, and although
> quite possible, adds a lot of complexity to sorcery. It sounds like a

First I've heard of scibbler, I'll have to check it out. Thanks.

> nice solution, until you start looking at what would need to change...
> basicly all of the dependancy stuff, the gaze stuff, libgrimoire, much
> of libsorcery, ... That's why we go with the codex method, it was a
> clean, simple solution... a tradeoff between useability and writability
> ;)
>

Understood, but when it comes to software.... usabilty is priority 1 (once
written used by millions). Perhaps (as others have stated) just including
versions in the spell name would help avoid confusion.

I'm sure the gurus will figure it out, I'll just go back to being bored. :)

-jm

> On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 18:41, Joe Menola wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 December 2003 5:10 pm, Duane Malcolm wrote:
> > > What happens if you want to cast both version, eg, stable and devel
> > > gimp? Would this make dispelling spells more complex, ie, if I cast
> > > gimp configured to devel and then cast gimp configured to stable, would
> > > it dispel the previous devel version. This certainly adds complexity to
> > > the system.
> > >
> > > If this sourcemage is aimed towards users, if someone casts name_of_app
> > > it should install the stable version. If you want something else you
> > > should cast name_of_app-cvs or name_of_app-devel. There could be a
> > > standard format for these kind of spell.
> >
> > I like this approach. Personally I think it should be employed instead of
> > using seperate grimiores...including test, games and rejected.
> > By using a single grimiore and appending cvs, test, games and rejected to
> > the spells name it simplifies the use of sorcery system-update.
> > Having to swap grimiores and placing spells on hold is a pain.
> > JMO
> >
> > -jm
> >
> > > Having all versions of a spell in one may make the maintanance of a
> > > spell more difficult.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Duane.
> > >
> > > evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
> > > >>I'd like to cast just one spell and be prompted whether I want
> > > >>release or cvs version.
> > > >
> > > > Like the Firebird spell for example! Sometimes when I know what app
> > > > I want to install I simply try "cast name_of_app", and having the
> > > > prompt for the cvs/devel version in the spell at least makes me aware
> > > > that the option exists!
> > > >
> > > >vote: +1
> > > >
> > > > Jonathan Evraire
> > > > evraire at tuwg.com
> > > >
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