public/private/stable/unstable

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:55 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Robert Collins wrote:
> > I'd like to know whether _ means
> > "private"
> > or 
> > "unsupported".
> > 
> > Can we PLEASE pick ONE, put it in HACKING, and not ever go around this
> > again.
> 
> I would be happy with it meaning unstable.  That implies "private"
> anyhow, since you shouldn't use an unstable symbol.  At least, not if
> you want your code to work.

Plugins often have a devils choice between not working at all, or using
something the core considers 'not ready yet'. I think its fine if they
choose to do the latter - but not fine if they choose to use something
the core considers private. At least to me, private is not implied by
unstable/unsupported.

-Rob
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