Konecny: Anaconda modularisation

On his blog, Jiri Konecny writes about plans for modularizing Anaconda, which is the installer for Fedora and other Linux distributions. Anaconda is written in Python 3, but is all contained in one monolithic program."The current Anaconda has one significant problem: all of the code is in one place--the monolith. It is more difficult to trace bugs and to a have a stable API. Implementing new features or modifying existing code in Anaconda is also more challenging. Modularisation should help with these things mainly because of isolation between the modules. It will be much easier to create tests for modules or to add new functionality.Modularisation also opens up new possibilities to developers. They should be able to create a new user interface easily. Since developers can rely on the existing API documentation, it should not be necessary to browse the source code tree very often. Another benefit is that an addon is like another module, communicating with other modules, so it has the same capabilities. Developers can use the public API to write their addons in their favourite programming language which supports DBus."