Michael Stenner wrote: >I never said "need". In fact, I said quite explicitly that there were >many ways to do it. Including... > >Quoting myself: > > "Define the functions wherever you want, including 'plugins' if you > like." > > My apologies, I missed that. >Perhaps you should read again the text you quoted. I write "GIVEN A >LONG LIST" (in caps, I might add), and you immediately say "you don't >have a long list". > > Removing the list is a perfectly valid way of addressing the situation of having a long list :-) It's a mute point anyway given that: >The limiting issue is human interface and >Seth's (laudable) desire to keep it clean and simple. > > .. which I can agree with. Anything more than the if block is only useful if the CLI options become numerous enough to justify it. Basically I agree with you on almost every point :-) I'd probably move to the dynamic loading model (it's only about 50 lines) sooner rather than most but that's just me. The catch is that I think it means pulling in 800 odd lines of the inspect module to do it properly (or is there another way that means you're not exec-ing user supplied strings without validating their targets?). I didn't mean to offend, I think finding out that the answerfile based non-interactive install option for maple9 doesn't work on linux annoyed me a bit this morning. C
