Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-11-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009 01:06:50 David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Nov 2, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Adam Kennedy wrote: > > I still think I prefer Zefram's approach, remove optional_features > > entirely. > > +1 > +1 too. I hate optional_features with a passion. Regards, Shlomi Fish > David > --

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-11-03 Thread Slaven Rezic
Adam Kennedy wrote: I still think I prefer Zefram's approach, remove optional_features entirely. I would rather get rid of "suggests" and "recommends". optional_features is not that different from these both, but it has a name and a description. I'd rather pick the feature "fulltext_search" t

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-11-02 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Nov 2, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Adam Kennedy wrote: I still think I prefer Zefram's approach, remove optional_features entirely. +1 David

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-11-02 Thread Adam Kennedy
I still think I prefer Zefram's approach, remove optional_features entirely. Adam K On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:27 PM, David Golden wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote: >> I don't know the history of this, but - risking that I'll add >> something already covered - I w

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-11-02 Thread David Golden
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote: > I don't know the history of this, but - risking that I'll add > something already covered - I would propose that if optional features > are to be formalized - then they should be allowed to appear in > 'require_*'.  Otherwise optional feat

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-11-02 Thread Zbigniew Lukasiak
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Slaven Rezic wrote: > David Golden wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:51 AM, David Golden wrote: >>> >>> 21. Formalize optional_features >>> >>> Proposal: >>> >>> Optional features: is supported in META.yml, but it requires a lot of >>> manual intervention and t

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-11-01 Thread Slaven Rezic
David Golden wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:51 AM, David Golden wrote: 21. Formalize optional_features Proposal: Optional features: is supported in META.yml, but it requires a lot of manual intervention and trickery to make it work. And it is very poorly documented. (Tux) I'm for doing som

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-10-11 Thread Zefram
David Golden wrote: >Optional features: is supported in META.yml, but it requires a lot of >manual intervention and trickery to make it work. And it is very poorly >documented. (Tux) Get rid of it. I think each such feature should be reified as a module, which one can declare as a dependency of a

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-10-09 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:51 AM, David Golden wrote: > 21. Formalize optional_features > > Proposal: > > Optional features: is supported in META.yml, but it requires a lot of > manual intervention and trickery to make it work. And it is very poorly > documented. (Tux) I'm for doing something, eith

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-10-09 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:33 AM, Steffen Mueller wrote: I've had more hassle than luck with optional features, but since some people make valid use of it, I'd be (slightly) against removal. +1 to formalization +1 I've stayed away from optional_features because of the hinky extra library that M

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-10-09 Thread Steffen Mueller
David Golden wrote: 21. Formalize optional_features I've had more hassle than luck with optional features, but since some people make valid use of it, I'd be (slightly) against removal. +1 to formalization Steffen

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-10-09 Thread Graham Barr
On Oct 9, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote: * David Golden [2009-10-09T07:51:56] 21. Formalize optional_features Proposal: Optional features: is supported in META.yml, but it requires a lot of manual intervention and trickery to make it work. And it is very poorly documented. (Tux)

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-10-09 Thread Ricardo Signes
* David Golden [2009-10-09T07:51:56] > 21. Formalize optional_features > > Proposal: > > Optional features: is supported in META.yml, but it requires a lot of > manual intervention and trickery to make it work. And it is very poorly > documented. (Tux) Either ditch optional_features or make its

CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-10-09 Thread David Golden
21. Formalize optional_features Proposal: Optional features: is supported in META.yml, but it requires a lot of manual intervention and trickery to make it work. And it is very poorly documented. (Tux) Comments: * Not all YAML parsers parse that structure the same way, so the order of this se