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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] proliferation of *-cvs spells
  • Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:38:08 +0100

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:24:11PM +0000, David Braaten wrote:
>
> By my count, there are seven (7) *-cvs spells in the grimoires, hardly a
> proliferation
> by any means.
>
> games/emulators/scummvm-cvs
> games/emulators/scummvm_tools-cvs
> test/chat-im/gaim-cvs
> test/libs/libnjb-cvs
> test/video/ffmpeg-cvs
> test/video/MPlayer-cvs
>
> AFAICT, these exist primarily for 'bleeding edge' users to get the newest
> features/ bug fixes for certain active projects. There are also the odd
> projects (eg. openal ) which don't release source packages, which rely on
> cvs for the code.
>
> IMO, I don't see a need at this time to go nuts changing some fundamental
> sorcery+grimoire structure to accomodate these few *-cvs spells.

Nicely put, even counting the recent additions to audio and sergejs
combined spells it's not even 1% of our grimoire. So i think until our
1.0 release every guru should do whatever works best for his spells.

--
Arwed v. Merkatz
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Grimoire Guru for xfce
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