Re: Patch/Snippet Resolution

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 09/03/98


On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, d. hall wrote:

>A system, I was thinking about was having a directory read at run time.  In
>the directory will be a list of files, one files per patch.  The file will
>have a set format.
>
>--
>## [MUD MAJOR VERSION NUMBER]
>Patch Name:Patch Author
>Patch Description
>--

Beware of 14 character Minix filesystems. (yes they still exist.)

It might be nice and you can make a patch to register the patches, but I
don't think it'll be included in stock code, unless you convince Jeremy.  I
don't see it being worth the headache to work on Windows, Acorn, Macintosh,
etc and every other platform CircleMUD supports.

--
George Greer, greerga@circlemud.org | Genius may have its limitations, but
http://mouse.van.ml.org/ (not done) | stupidity is not thus handicapped.
http://www.van.ml.org/CircleMUD/    |                  -- Elbert Hubbard


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