[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Jesse Noller]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 08:42 -0400, Jesse Noller a écrit :
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> > Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 12:53 +0100, Michael Foord a écrit :
>> >> 2) New modules are acceptable but old modules should remain forever.
>> >> (Antoine)
>> >
>> > As far as I'm concerned, you could change this to « New modules are
>> > acceptable but old modules should remain as long as they are popular,
>> > and aren't plagued by severe issues ».
>> >
>> > cheers
>> >
>> > Antoine.
>>
>> Define "popular" - it's purely subjective.
>
> Used by many people.
>

How do you define "many people"? What if it's used by MEGACORP
extensively, but by barely any modules on the cheeseshop?