On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 22:36 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > Sometimes you can introduce a few options into a single base framework > that will make it good enough for pretty much everybody. Other times, > you'll have to introduce significantly different frameworks to enable > the system to behave optimally for different uses. > > Too much choice can be bad, but concluding from this that choice is > bad in general, and then proceed to always take it away, is far worse. > That's what "sound technical decisions" are: negotiating these sort of tradeoffs. There's no free lunch. Havoc