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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]submit script
  • Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:05:40 -0700

well at this point my question is, is my script worth improving? is it
actually something someone other then myself would use. other then the
bugs i listed what could be added?

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:52:33PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Good point, Andrew, but I think that, overall, having a 'sorcery-tools'
> spell would be nice. Or perhaps (and better yet? :) We'll see...) a
> sorcery-tools section, or tools section, or they could just go in the sgl
> section. Anyways, we could have each of the scripts a separate spell in
> said section, though this might not look pretty, it will give people the
> option of which scripts they want, instead of an all or nothing (short of
> getting the ones you want manually).
>
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle
>
> Andrew said:
> > that may be useful since there are a number of spell writing scripts out
> > there and they could just be bundled and updated through a spell. on the
> > otherhand i think keeping some of that stuff bundled in sorcery would
> > really encourage people to write their own spells, moreso then if they
> > had to cast a seperate spell to get this stuff.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:35:50PM -0700, Aaron Brice wrote:
> >> There's lots of handy scripts like this out there that get posted to
> >> the mailing list and then I forget about them and can't find them when
> >> I need them.. Maybe we could create a sorcery-tools spell that people
> >> could submit scripts to?
> >>
> >> Aaron
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 09:11, Andrew wrote:
> >> > This is just a little script i wrote to submit spells to the spell
> >> submit list. It tarball's the spell directory, looks up the section
> >> maintainer's email and sends it to both them and the sm-spell-submit
> >> list, and prompts for a message.
> >> >
> >> > I was thinking we could add this in sorcery somewhere as it would
> >> encourage spell writing by other users, all they'd have to do is
> >> write and test the spell in a directory somewhere, run the command
> >> and off it goes, if all goes to plan the guru sees it and within a
> >> few days its in the grimoire. Perhaps it could be a scribe option or
> >> something?
> >> >
> >> > Anyways its very very basic right now but i can spiff it up and make
> >> it work with systems that dont have an mta, etc if theres interest
> >> in it. If not...well you'll know how im submitting spells to the
> >> list.
> >> >
> >> > (IMPORTANT): i put an echo in front of the actual command it runs so
> >> if you just unpack it and run it, it will just tell you what it
> >> would have done, remove the echo on the last line to uncripple it.
> >> >
> >> > known bugs:
> >> > uses uuencode which uses sendmail, therefore it works fine on any
> >> system whose mta provides a sendmail frontend (or they run *shudder*
> >> sendmail), I need to find out how to make it work with systems uses
> >> imap or pop3 style email.
> >> >
> >> > it probably wont work unless you are in the parent directory of the
> >> spell directory, id need to add an option to parse out the directory
> >> name. Not a whole lot of flexibility, no options, again this is a
> >> rough draft to see if people are interested.
> >> >
> >> > It uses gaze maintainer <section> to find out who the section leader
> >> is, currently it takes the first address it finds, i had to pipe the
> >> output into grep twice because if there are two address's on the
> >> first line an address is found on, both come out, If someone uses a
> >> funky style to write their email or abuses the @ symbol my regexp
> >> may match it.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
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