Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:24:00AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> > Ok, didn't know such a script existed :)
> > With that it's possible to use BUILD as new name, we just have to do it
> > for the whole grimoire before integrating everything, which will halt
> > spell updates and bugfixes for a bit. I think if we all work together we
> > can do it in one or two days, i definitely don't want a rush to just
> > convert and submit the whole grimoire, this should be carefully checked
> > (even if the script is bulletproof, i like to stay on the safe side).
> > So imho the best option for the conversion of spell format would be a
> > script that takes a section or a list of spells, p4 opens all it needs
> > and does the changes, but doesn't submit. So people could just say on
> > the channel that they're taking a section (so there's no overlap), run
> > the script on that section, then check it with p4 diff and submit if
> > it's alright.
> > I realize this seems more complicated than just a script that does
> > everything, but i really don't want _any_ spell to get broken by this,
> > we have enough work fixing bugs without generating new ones ourself :)
> 
> I think this is a good plan of action. ;) Are we going to wait until after 
> GNOME
> 2.6, or start now and just integrate it all when it's ready?
 
I would prefer waiting for gnome 2.6, but i'm open for suggestions of
doing it while gnome is very different in devel and test.
If i understand the overall course of action for this right, we want to
get these changes into test very soon, with a sorcery relying on a
API_VERSION file in the grimoire (we need that both in stable and devel
sorcery, unless we get all the sorcery changes into a stable release at
the same time we do the grimoire changes), so all of us and our
adventurous users can test it thoroughly before going into stable.

The problem i see is that we would have to either pull the beta gnome
2.6 into test or modify the gnome spells in test directly, which would
lead to a messy integration later.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                               Sourcemage GNU/Linux developer
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