sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Discussion of Sorcery related topics
List archive
- From: Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>
- To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:46:43 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Nick Jennings wrote:
> As many of you know, there have been many problems with the sorcery spell
> in branch 0.8.x
>
> For one, the version on the currently installed spell is mixed up, depending
> on which application checks. Some look for SORCERY_VERSION, some get the
> installed packaged file to get the version which was set in the spells
> DETAILS
> file.
>
> During a cast, the version is seen as what's currently installed, it's
> registered in the install file, and then the new tarball is installed
> which is a newer version. So it's all mixed up.
>
> The format of the grimoire, and the tools used to manage it (cast
> specifically)
> are just not able to support the flexibility we (as in not just me :) tried
> to implement.
>
> Perhaps we should just bite the bullet, make two spells - sorcery-devel &
> sorcery-stable.
>
> sorcery-stable is bumped up with updated spells, hardcoded versions, the
> "old fashioned" way.
>
> sorcery-devel uses a forced download mechanism, (every 24 hours, download
> a fresh tarball), the VERSION is set at 'devel' and the spell pretty much
> never needs to be updated unless theres a change to the spell.
>
> Comments?
Do you have to opt-in to the sorcery-devel spell in this case? I can see
why some people wouldn't want to all of a sudden see network activity
every 24 hours if they aren't on this list. Perhaps keep "sorcery-stable"
as "sorcery" and then have a "sorcery-devel" for the devel branch?
Also, how often now does the devel sorcery get updated from CVS right now?
I've been wanting to track changes as often as possible and am wondering
if I should just track CVS myself, or if perhaps a spell could be made
that gets sorcery from CVS. I'm going to do that last idea myself if
somebody doesn't already have something similar going.
Is sorcery-devel going to be updated directly from CVS nightly? Is it
already doing this?
Perhaps sorcery-devel can be generated every hour, and then people can
specify through the sorcery-devel meny how often they would like devel
updated (i.e. change the cron entry)?
those are my comments...
Seth Woolley
-
[SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems,
Nick Jennings, 09/04/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems, Seth Woolley, 09/04/2002
-
Re: [SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems,
Ryan Abrams, 09/04/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems, Seth Woolley, 09/04/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems, Nick Jennings, 09/05/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
-
Re: [SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems,
Nathan Doss, 09/04/2002
-
Re: [SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems,
Nick Jennings, 09/05/2002
-
Re: [SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems,
Dufflebunk, 09/05/2002
- Re: [SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems, Nick Jennings, 09/05/2002
-
Re: [SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems,
Dufflebunk, 09/05/2002
-
Re: [SM-Sorcery]sorcery spell problems,
Nick Jennings, 09/05/2002
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.