On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Michael Pedersen <[email protected]> wrote: > > The ages old conundrum of "how much choice is too much?". I'll point to > Ubuntu for an answer: They install certain things by default, and make it > possible to use anything else that you might choose. For instance, they > don't provide emacs by default, but using it is a single command away. > There's no reason we can't do similar. >
Ubuntu is a good similitude, but indeed they actually do not provide any support for things different from the official ones. They are provided as they are and you are on yourself. I would like to be the Ubuntu of the situation, not the Gentoo ;) (For all the Gentoo users, I really like Gentoo and is my first choice on Linux, but I admit that trying to support everything has caused them a long history of package incompatibilities) I think that providing Elixir is a bonus, but it makes harder to keep things in shape (and to me it seems that the story reported by Jorge confirms this) so I would proposte to have it as a separate package. We can even create a generic tg.extensions package where to put elixir and any other thing that we think that it might be interesting. For me this would be a more wise choice because it would be a clear statement about what is 100% stable and maintained and what you can use at your own risk having the chance that some day it will stop working. While the core things should prevent any release if not perfectly working and tested (and this is already hard with the number of choices we are providing right no, 2.1 is a good example of this) parts of "tg.extensions" might have a bit more freedom. What do you think? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en.
