Re: Bloat?

[Ryan Tomayko <r@tomayko.com>]

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

Matt, that's just crazy talk.

> 2. Rack core should only include what's necessary for Rack::Lint to validate
> a basic application at minimum.

You actually don't need Rack the library to write Rack apps. The Rack
SPEC uses only core Ruby data structures to define the basic protocol.
Rack would include only Rack::Lint at that point.

Thanks,
Ryan