On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 18:44, John Siracusa wrote: Without commenting on the issue of single-file bundling...
> To bring it home, I think packaging and distribution is important enough to > warrant a standard, core-supported implementation. > I think the "specially structured dir of files" and its single-file packaged > (and precompiled) variants are important enough to be standardized, or > "core", or whatever you want to call it. ... you can find almost anyone arguing this point for almost any feature. I'm inclined to distrust it. > I just don't see a way to achieve this level of transparency and > elegance without core support. That's a much better gauge for whether a feature should go into the core. I don't know how this particular case fares with that metric, but it's one of the right questions to ask. -- c
