On 12/21/2010 5:22 PM, Mike Giacomelli wrote:


If theres a lot of use cases, and the ones the patch currently implements are 
implemented well, it should be committed and the additional cases handled in 
future patches.

                                        

The main problem is that the patch may go too far to address too many use cases. It contains a lot of options that may not even be necessary for the use cases it's targeted at. "Too much stuff" is much harder to address in future patches than "too little stuff" because it's nearly impossible to argue for the removal of an existing feature.

As I've said a few times, we should take a step back and try to come to a consensus of what should be addressed ignoring what this patch does or does not address, then hold this patch up against that and see if it fits within that scope.

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