Re: cvs commit: squid3 configure.in

From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:42:54 +0200

On lör, 2007-09-08 at 07:53 +0200, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

> I think you don't need to burn your brains too much on this point.
> Figuring the perfect API out of the blue could mean spend a lot of
> energies on something that would eventually freeze anyway, and if one
> really needs a feature that was introduced few hours before, he won't
> complain if minimal adjustments are required for a while (he'll probably
> have more issues within his own plugin). Having said this, your point
> definitely makes sense, and should drive the design, but without
> excessive concern.

Yes, and is why I say reasonably in shape.

> > but for the goal of spliting Squid in loadable objects all under our
> > control then it's not so important and just 'b' suffices to get it done.
>
> Well, I believe it's a pity to hide this feature. Modularity and
> extensibility often represent a winning point in software, as someone
> with special needs will always stump in.

Yes, but modularity without good boundaries just gets messy.

Regards
Henrik

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