xc/programs considered harmful
Keith Packard
keithp at keithp.com
Fri Dec 17 12:54:28 PST 2004
Around 15 o'clock on Dec 17, Owen Taylor wrote:
> What really disappoints me here is that modularization has been
> discussed, experimented with, tried out for several years, and nobody
> has sat down and wrote down a concrete plan for:
>
> - How will the code be structured in CVS
> - What will be the released tarballs
> - What are the stages for moving code to match
This is putting the cart before the horse. Until we have an actual
commitment from X.org (however that is done) that release 'foo' will be
modular, any planning for modularization is strictly navel gazing.
We have to get help from everyone involved, even those vehemently
opposed to modularization, to make sure the system will work for them.
Right now, we just hear about how 'environment foo' or 'system bar' will
break irrepairibly as a result of modularization instead of patches to
make it work again.
There's no way we can get rough concensus about how modularization should
work until we have rough concensus that it should happen at all.
-keith
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