To: SM-Commit Daemon <sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] PERFORCE change 77900 by David Kowis for review
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:46:13 +0200
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:39:46AM -0700, Andrew Stitt wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 04:37:13PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> >
> > Does that work? The spells have the same name, can cast cast a spell
> > from a different grimoire if there is a spell with the same name in a
> > grimoire with higher priority?
>
> It wont work, cast uses the first version of the spell it finds, it
> searches in the order listed in scribe index. Spells of the same name in
> subsequent grimoires effectively dont exist as far as cast is concerned.
That's what I thought.
> All you really can do is add a cross-grimoire dependency. And maybe let
> the user know somehow (ML, changelog?) to scribe add z-rejected so they
> can get updates. The normal deprecation procedure is based on the spell
> name actually changing.
Currently we record all such moves in the grimoire ChangeLog, I wouldn't
mind if we add notifying the mailing list to that (which list? -announce
and -user come to mind).