Re: [Webmacro-devel] ContextTool replacement and thread-safety

[Brian G. <br...@qu...>]

> I give up. We're chasing in circles.

After all this effort, I am really wondering what concrete gain the
user community gets out of this.  No one has (yet) put forward
compelling use cases for why we would want lazy-loading for anything
other than tools, or why the tools interface is inadequate, or what
other context-aware thingies besides tools there are.  That's not to
say there aren't any -- but I think the thing we're all struggling
with is that we don't know why we're talking about this.  At least I
don't.

I know that there are things about ContextTool which are aesthetically
displeasing.  But I'm struggling to see how the WM user community will
be better off in a year if we do this now.  (Making the code
incrementally cleaner is not a strong enough motivator.)

I think this is the problem -- I guess I need to see how the users
will benefit, but I don't yet.

And therein is the problem.  I think it is just premature to talk
about code changes without a clear, shared idea of how the users will
benefit.  Anything else is putting the code before the horse.