Re: Bloat?

[Kyle Drake <kyledrake@gmail.com>]

I like having a rich set of rack components available, and I think
splitting it up would just make it harder for newcomers to use Rack
because they would have to dig around for the parts needed to make it
useful. If these files all got loaded on runtime I would agree with
you, but as long as they aren't all used by default I'm content with
keeping all the components in one gem install. One of my favorite
things about Rack was getting a ton of cool toys to play with out of
the box, it's one of the principal things that really sold me on it.

-Kyle

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Matt Todd<chiology@gmail.com> 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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