[Pmwiki-users] sandbox reset

Kass Lloyd kasslloyd
Mon Jul 19 22:34:58 CDT 2004


On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:57:38 +1000, Jason Grossman
<jason.grossman at staff.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> In my humble opinion (no offence intended!) this would be horrible
> creeping featuritis if put into the default distribution.   Much better
> to make it a cookbook entry.
> 
> If you're wondering what the big deal is about this, it's that anything
> added to the default distribution means expanding the main
> documentation and therefore making it more complicated and less
> idiot-proof ... whereas cookbook entries are documented separately and
> so idiots don't have to worry about them.  It may seem like a fine
> distinction, but I really think it's a very important one.
> 
> Jason G.
> 

No offense, but the fear of having to do more work on documentation as
an excuse to add a new feature is also quite horrible.



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