raggi@mbk: ~/dev/ext/rack % du -sh lib/

296K lib/

And...

raggi@mbk: ~/dev/ext/rack % g grep autoload

bin/rackup:autoload :Rack, 'rack'

lib/rack.rb:# All modules meant for use in your application are <tt>autoload</tt>ed here,

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Builder, "rack/builder"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Cascade, "rack/cascade"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Chunked, "rack/chunked"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :CommonLogger, "rack/commonlogger"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :ConditionalGet, "rack/conditionalget"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Const, "rack/constants"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :ContentLength, "rack/content_length"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :ContentType, "rack/content_type"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :File, "rack/file"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Deflater, "rack/deflater"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Directory, "rack/directory"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :ForwardRequest, "rack/recursive"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Handler, "rack/handler"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Head, "rack/head"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Lint, "rack/lint"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Lock, "rack/lock"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :MethodOverride, "rack/methodoverride"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Mime, "rack/mime"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Recursive, "rack/recursive"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Reloader, "rack/reloader"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :ShowExceptions, "rack/showexceptions"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :ShowStatus, "rack/showstatus"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Static, "rack/static"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :URLMap, "rack/urlmap"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Utils, "rack/utils"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :MockRequest, "rack/mock"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :MockResponse, "rack/mock"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Request, "rack/request"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Response, "rack/response"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Basic, "rack/auth/basic"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :AbstractRequest, "rack/auth/abstract/request"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :AbstractHandler, "rack/auth/abstract/handler"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :OpenID, "rack/auth/openid"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :MD5, "rack/auth/digest/md5"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Nonce, "rack/auth/digest/nonce"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Params, "rack/auth/digest/params"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Request, "rack/auth/digest/request"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Cookie, "rack/session/cookie"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Pool, "rack/session/pool"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Memcache, "rack/session/memcache"

lib/rack.rb: autoload :Camping, "rack/adapter/camping"

lib/rack/handler.rb: autoload :CGI, "rack/handler/cgi"

lib/rack/handler.rb: autoload :FastCGI, "rack/handler/fastcgi"

lib/rack/handler.rb: autoload :Mongrel, "rack/handler/mongrel"

lib/rack/handler.rb: autoload :EventedMongrel, "rack/handler/evented_mongrel"

lib/rack/handler.rb: autoload :SwiftipliedMongrel, "rack/handler/swiftiplied_mongrel"

lib/rack/handler.rb: autoload :WEBrick, "rack/handler/webrick"

lib/rack/handler.rb: autoload :LSWS, "rack/handler/lsws"

lib/rack/handler.rb: autoload :SCGI, "rack/handler/scgi"

lib/rack/handler.rb: autoload :Thin, "rack/handler/thin"

I don't think we have a bloat problem. I think you're judging bloat the wrong way.

On 13 Aug 2009, at 18:04, Matt Todd wrote:

I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday and he mentioned that thought the Rack package itself seemed to be slightly bloated by things like Basic Auth et al. He mentioned two things I thought were interesting and I wanted to get your feedback on it:

1. Like Merb, Rack probably could benefit from using a core and more separation of functionality, and
2. Rack core should only include what's necessary for Rack::Lint to validate a basic application at minimum.

Thoughts?

Matt

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