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http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9789

           Summary: order in which SOURCE_URL is checked needs to be set
           Product: Sorcery
           Version: Untargetted future release
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Summon
        AssignedTo: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org


At some point devel sorcery appears to have reversed the order the SOURCE_URL
array is traversed.  In current stable and test it is (and to my knowledge has
always been) checked lowest index to highest.  In devel it is highest index to
lowest.  Possibly this was an unintentional change, I don't know.

While the order to expect is not documented anywhere, spell writers assume the
lowest to highest order, and specify the arrays accordingly.  Primary mirrors
get the lowest indexes, and fallbacks get the highest.  These fallbacks aren't
always current, however, so right now in devel summoning some spells will 
show a
lot of failures before falling back to the primary site and succeeding.

I suggest this should be standardized with the historical lowest to highest
index ordering, and devel summon should be switched back to this ordering.  
This
should happen before this change makes it into a test or stable branch of
sorcery so that existing spell behaviour doesn't change and cause user or
developer confusion.

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