On 2015-09-11 07:50 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > Pardon me, but: At what point does the code required for the > inclusion of a multitude of supported data formats exceed the core > purpose of the executable? > > At some point, obtaining a desired output format (from the potentially > dozens available) might be offloaded to a different executable that > performs that function, rather than bloating program X with a thousand > input/output formats.
Well, it /IS/ a loadable extension - i.e. only for those who want it. It isn't changing the core really. https://www.sqlite.org/draft/loadext.html