On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 10:06, Lester Ward wrote:
> > > With the single "type" element a particular handler should 
> > > know what to do. Might a dependency need more than one type 
> > > of attribute? I honestly don't think so.
> 
> I totally disagree. 

And that's fine, but what I''m going to do is make both for a simple
experiment that users can participate in and make patches for if they
like.

People look too much at the "type" and attribute that to packaging. I
still hold that one marker per dependency would cover everything and you
would end up with a small number of handlers, but I'll make another
flavour which uses "kind" decorators then you users can throw whatever
you like as use cases and we'll see how both unfold. 

Easy enough to do with the components, just flip one implementation out
for the other and we can try one, the other, or any variant in between.
It's something that users feel concerned about so we'll throw it out
there as a little hack-a-thon as the debate will go on ad nauseum.

-- 
jvz.

Jason van Zyl
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happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will
elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come
and sit softly on your shoulder ...

 -- Thoreau 


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