Re: design goals vs mechanisms

[Bas Wijnen]

Please remove the parts of the original mail that you aren't replying to, it
makes the result much easier to read.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:56:47PM +0200, ness wrote:
> Bas Wijnen wrote:
> >
> >Ok, so the current list of goals is:
> >- persistance
> 
> As marcus already mentioned, persistence is not a goal. It's a mechanism.

Marcus said it could be a goal, and it could be a mechanism for other goals.
Marcus seems to think that we do not want persistence as a goal (that is, it
is not something which we should aim for), but we will probably need it as a
mechanism for other goals.  I think we may want it as a goal by itself as
well (unplugging the computer without need for explicit recovery is a nice
thing), but probably low priority, so it may very well be dropped.  However,
that doesn't mean we don't do it: if we need it for a goal which we keep, then
obviously we use it as a mechanism.

Thanks,
Bas

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