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 than

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

2009-10-11 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

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 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

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-10-09 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:51 AM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com 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