Discussion of Sorcery related topics

[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

Factoring out code into libs is a good thing.

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Andrew wrote:

> Some of you may have noticed the traffic on bug 6821. I've hijacked
> this bug to further my desire to split up BUILD to its logical pieces,
> COMPILE and INSTALL. I've submitted some patches that accomplish the
> task and written a design doc about it [1]. I've also gone ahead and
> applied the changes to my local perforce client. Changes are just waiting
> to be submitted.
> 
> A few issues come up here, first of all there is a POST_BUILD script,
> and a POST_INSTALL script which run in sequence after BUILD finishes,
> of course with my latest changes POST_BUILD runs after INSTALL and
> POST_INSTALL runs after that, perhaps we should rename POST_BUILD
> something more useful, or rename POST_INSTALL something else? Thoughts?
> 
> The final goal of all this is make a new sorcery script that lets the
> user run any given spell script by itself (outside of the dependency
> mechanism), allowing the user to have more fine-tuned and lower level
> control over the casting process. The wiki page details the basic idea
> behind this script. I've named the script mutter, does anyone have a
> better name? Other thoughts?
> 
> And of course another thing that has to happen in order to make mutter
> is to move a bunch of the functions from cast into a new library (say
> libcast). Any objections to me doing this?
> 
> [1] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=BUILD+split+design+doc
> 
> 

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