On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:38:04AM -0800, Johan Tibell wrote:
Glad to see you're making progress on this. Once we're done exploring how fine-grained we can make the division we might want to pull back a bit
I definitely agree with "Once we're done". Once we have made all the splits we might want to make, it'll be a lot easier to see the big picture and merge packages we decide should be merged. It's a lot harder to work the other way, as it's tricky to see what is or isn't possible.
In addition, I don't think we want to say that e.g. pure data structures can't depend on the FFI. While their current implementation might not use the FFI, what if we want to use it in the future. We'd have to reshuffle the packages again.
I think the issue is what a package exports, rather than what it depends on. Changing the package dependencies later won't affect users of the package. Thanks Ian