On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 8:32:06 AM AEST Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> I can point you to countless examples of applications written Perl and
> Python whose libraries can be loaded from the global namespace, or Perl
> and Python libraries that also provide executables.
I think it is not about exceptions from the rule but general attitude.
I have impression that other teams aim to ship/isolate libraries in
appropriate binary packages, at least for new packages. Here apparently I've
been specifically advised not to do so...
> of course sometimes this is overlooked, as seems to be the case of
> ruby-fission; but most of the over a thousand of Ruby packages are in the
> right bucket.
Of course they are. Most of those libraries are just libraries without
executables hence there is no package split dilemma...
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Best wishes,
Dmitry Smirnov.
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