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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: SM Sorcery <sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] splitting BUILD
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:28:10 -0800

Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> yes bug 6281 my mistake.
>
> The change is relatively minor and as it stands now is completely
> backwards compatible, so im not sure what the big fuss is about.
>
> What is so unstable about sorcery right now? I really dont know,
> perhaps if I knew what the major problems were I could fix them? And
> furthermore why are we still in this mindset that features == horribly
> broken/unstable sorcery, not all features cause bugs, IMO a lot of
> 'features' are actually necessities, and would resolve a lot of the
> problems we have.
>
> Part of the reason hamish is leaving is because a lot of these 'features'
> were arbitrarily moved off to 'post 1.0' land because of our fictitious
> 1.0 release date and the fact that our fearless leader was (_was_)
> hell-bent on getting there regardless of the circumstances.

If it's truly backwards compatible (which it sounds like it is) I see no
reason
not to try it as cleanup is our goal, and it sounds like this would do some
cleanup (separating some of the libraries into lib files) along with fixing a
few of the filed bugs.

-sandalle

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