Modularization mailing list and initial strawman proposal

[Adam Jackson]

On Friday 11 March 2005 16:20, Kevin E Martin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A few weeks ago the Modularization Working Group was announced, and
> several people expressed interest in helping out.  Many of them attended
> the recent X Developers Conference meeting in Boston and talked about
> how modularization might be accomplished.  Since there had not been very
> much discussion on the mailing lists after the initial announcement, we
> decided to take advantage of our face to face time to lay the groundwork
> for creating a proposal.  We have now worked through the issues that we
> discovered in an effort to create a strawman proposal that describes the
> rationale for modularization, attempts to address the known concerns
> people have raised, provides background on other modularization efforts,
> explains what the modularized source tree would look like, outlines the
> steps required to take this idea from concept to release, and suggests
> how future modular releases can be handled.

I haven't heard much reaction to this proposal.  I'm not quite optimistic 
enough to believe we nailed it on the first try, but, maybe we did.  Anyone 
have any comments?

I'd like to start moving on this as soon as possible, so if there's silent 
consensus out there I'd like it to speak up.

- ajax
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