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           Summary: TRIGGERS needs "urgent" option
           Product: Sorcery
           Version: 1.14.x
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Cast
        AssignedTo: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: iuso AT sourcemage.org


We should have an option to declare a trigger urgent (it would be acted upon 
_immediately_), so that everything else (including summon) would be halted 
until it has finished. Let me rationalize:

A while ago I updated some old spells. Included was a gettext version bump 
from 0.14.6 to 0.15 which broke lib compatibility for wget. Although wget has 
a cast_self trigger for when gettext is cast, it wasn't added as the next 
spell in the queue, but much later on.

This caused all summons which had to download something to fail until wget 
was 
cast many spells later. Because of the failed summons a lot of spells failed 
cast and were dropped.

The reason this "urgent" feature should also halt all summons is because 
naturally sorcery would also try to summon with a broken wget while it is 
being recast.

So, in my opinion this line in wget's TRIGGERS:

  on_cast  gettext  cast_self  urgent

...should:
  1) Stop all summons right before gettext INSTALL is started,
  2) add wget in the install queue right after gettext,
  3) proceed in halted mode until wget INSTALL is completed.

I'll attach a snippet from my activity log demonstrating what happened. It 
actually shows another problem as well: immediately after gettext is dispeled 
during before INSTALL summons start failing - of course, because wget uses 
the 
dispeled libs... But I guess that's another issue to ponder.

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