On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:38:06PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:
> I think that's the point here; right now, our userbase is primarly 
> developer-focused.  However, in the future there are going to be many 
> different types of users, and to assume that they all will have/use/can 
> use DTrace (regardless of coolness) is a bad assumption.

I think that's wrong.  One need not be a developer to use tools that
show system statistics.  And many users do use such tools.  When such
tools begin to make use of DTrace...  I think you could argue that tools
that use DTrace and need headers are relying on things that are not
stable interfaces, but then, you could also argue that DTrace itself
doesn't need headers.  So now we're down to this: whether you need
headers will be a rough heuristic.

But I won't argue against the goodness of bandwidth/time savings from
excluding headers by default.  Kudos if you can make it work well
enough.
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