On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 12:02 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On 11/26/05, seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> actually the gist of the thread is - why do we keep adding new items to
> core?
>
> Why not add them to extras?
There's a corollary to that... does Core need to be self-hosting? Or
is it enough to have Core+Extras build self consistent?
I think core needs to be self hosting, yes.
otherwise it makes building things from scratch a little bit of a
chicken-egg problem.
-sv