Re: profterm's eel usage ...

[Sander Vesik <sv117949 ireland sun com>]

On 24 Feb 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

[snip]

> This ensures that we avoid the "dumping ground effect" that's been so
> painful in other libraries. It also avoids maintenance-by-committee
> since each piece of the staging lib has a clear owner - the maintainer
> of the library that it makes sense for the feature to end up in.
> 
> So in essence the staging lib is a shared tool for maintainers of
> platform libraries.
> 
> Another rule has to be that only platform libs can be dependencies of
> the staging lib, probably. Since everything in the staging lib is
> targetted for one of the platform libs.
> 

I'd ditch the probably - unless we are going to add that new dependency X
as part of the platform the code shouldn't depend on it, as it will need
to stop doing it at the moment it is moved into the main library anyways.

> And a ground guideline has to be that we are really serious about "no
> compat guarantees" - if something turns out to be wrong, then it comes
> out or gets changed, and people have to fix their apps.
> 

The "being really serious about no compat guarantees" only works if the
maintainers are really serious about "will include in the library",
because otherwise you are back at gal...

>
> Havoc
> 


	Sander

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