* Tobias C. Rittweiler [2007-08-25 11:59+0200] writes:
Helmut Eller heller@common-lisp.net writes:
I think we should try the simplest variant first. If that doesn't work, we can try something more sophisticated. The simplest variant is to provide only a single feature set, i.e. only the stuff that is in the core.
What exactly do you consider to be the maintaince burden of my proposal?
Well, if we provide some default configuration which loads almost all contribs, people will mostly likely expect that that configuration works reasonably well. And we will--perhaps only subconsciously--spend a lot of time on that configuration, even if we don't use it.
It's also more likely that contrib modules depend on each other when contrib authors know that some other module is in the default configuration. I don't say that all contrib modules must be prefectly isolated from each other, but those contribs which depend only on the core are probably easier to maintain.
Helmut.