Re: Configurations proposal

On 25.10 19:08, Duncan Coutts wrote:

We are introducing a big new feature here, we can start out conservatively and not allow some fields to be used in configuration stanzas. If a real need arises we can review.

Would it really help? Packages are very much about social control (issues like namespace allocation), so I am not sure trying to protect users from packagers is a good argument to make things more complicated. An user is equally hurt if 1) an exposed module is missing, 2) it doesn't define the function, 3) it happens to lack critical instances etc. Having dummy modules with dummy function implementations is even worse - the error is only displayed at run-time. - Einar Karttunen