Re: Site-specific code

Jonathan, thanks for a useful heads-up; sorry to be slow in
piping up...

> The ark base code contains quite a lot of "sidai" functions at the
> moment. This somehow doesn't sit easy with me as it blurs the boundary
> between mechanism and policy and makes the sidai team "special" in
> some way. ...

Yes, I agree, completely.  However, I think there are
actually pretty small, pretty easy-to-find set of "snip
points" between ARK (mechanism) and sidai (one possible
policy) stuff.

> There's plenty of wacky things you can do with the Python module
> loader that would make this possible. ...

Therein lies my only worry -- I don't want to back into a
Python-only mode.  The *goal* is to have the core ARK
framework implemented/available in both Python and Perl (and
something else if someone yells loudly enough :-), so I
don't want to back into something that makes that hard.

But I've got my hacking-hands full at the moment... :-)

Will