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[Waldo Bastian]

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On Sat March 6 2004 00:42, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> It's more important to have something not so flexible which works out of
> the box than to have something infinitely tuneable but which *requires*
> tuning.

Well, I would say it's about the fine art of finding the right balance between 
the benefit of an option and the cost (in the terms that you mentioned) of 
such an option. 

Ideally one would make the default work so good that the benefit of the option 
reduces towards zero so that you can safely remove it and benefit from the 
reduction in cost.

The next best thing is to make the default work at least that good so that in 
the majority of cases there is no imminent need to do any configuration in 
order to use the application/feature in a productive way.

The worst case is having options that are required in order to do anything at 
all with an application/feature. The "Help Index" -> "HTML search" 
configuration comes to mind (but maybe I'm wrong, and maybe that works out of 
the box when I have ht://dig installed, but it looks scary nevertheless)

Cheers,
Waldo
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