Proliferation of small packages

[David Cheney]

I don't see how reusability requires splitting everything out into a host
of tiny little packages.

Dave (who is still upset about having not one, but a namespace of utils
packages)


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:04 PM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com>wrote:

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> Dave mentioned discussion on the CL wasn't the best place, so I'm hoping
> to continue the discussion on juju-dev.
>
> Note that I'm genuinely interested to hear what the alternatives are. I
> don't particularly prefer giant lists of imports, but I *do* really like
> small focused functionality that makes it easy to reuse.
>
> On 2013-05-30 8:19, dave at cheney.net wrote:
> > I will add a note of sadness that the import list at the top of
> > most of our files is starting to resemble java in its verbosity.
> > While not directly related this proposal, I do see it as a result
> > of trying to define our packages at a very fine level of
> > granuality; above what I believe is necessary.
> >
> Isn't that the Unix philosophy? Small focused bits of functionality,
> that you can reuse and combine into something useful?
>
> It also seems to be espoused in the Go documents that *I've* read.
> That you should have things like
>
> one.New()
> two.New()
>
> rather than
>
> all.NewOne()
> all.NewTwo()
>
> A clear example of this is something like:
>   http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/
>
> Where every encoding is its own sub-package, rather than one package
> that has bits for each thing.
>
> The other bit is that Go doesn't let you talk about imports of imports
> (probably for good reason). But it means that if package X uses
> instances from package Y, something that needs to declare a var, needs
> to import both X and Y.
>
>
> If you can give rough outlines of what you think it should look like,
> I'd certainly be interested to hear about it.
>
> John
> =:->
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