Hello. Le jeu. 11 déc. 2025 à 14:23, Elliotte Rusty Harold <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Standard question for new functionality: Who will use it? Can you > point to specific projects that will replace existing code with this > new commons method? > > Utility libraries have a habit of collecting a lot of unused cruft > that was added because it seemed logical, but that did not have an > actual, non-hypothetical need.
Isn't it a "chicken-and-egg" question? Isn't the purpose of a "common" library to implement well-defined and generally useful functionality, in the hope that it'll incite code reuse? Until said functionality is implemented, it obviously cannot be used... I think that a distinction can be made (?) between "cruft" (used or not) and potentially useful (even if we cannot enforce usage). Regards, Gilles > [...] >> [...] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
