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On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 07:40:13AM -0500, Sean Dague wrote:
> It's all fun and games... until someone has to do the work. :)
> 
> The entry_point drum beat has been around for while, at least the
> last 2 design summits. But when you look at Nova, there are at least
> 3 different ways we load things today, so this ends up being in the
> "Tedious Task" realm to get us there.
> 
> Monty's tried a couple of times, but the first came late in Folsom,
> so the change was way to destabilizing. The second was early in
> Grizzly, had a huge impact on the unit test run time, which never
> got addressed, and I think got Abandoned.
> 
> I'd say right now we're too late in Grizzly for this. But a real
> plan for Havana is probably a good one.
> 
>  * Converting our existing oslo importer to entry points
>  * Converting the LazyPluggable loaded stuff to entry points
>  * Making nova extensions actually entry points
> 
> With it will come some substantial deprecation again, but that's
> probably fine. Something like this should drop by havana-1 or
> havana-2, by the time we get into havana-3 it's just too late for
> such changes.

Agreed, that kind of timeframe does look like the best option
given the potential for trouble the change may create.

Daniel
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