public/private/stable/unstable

[Aaron Bentley]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:55 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:

> Plugins often have a devils choice between not working at all, or using
> something the core considers 'not ready yet'.

Those are not their only options.  They also have the option of asking
the core to provide a supported version, and I really wish they would
exercise it instead.

> 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.

Then in your terms, I want it to mean both unsupported and private.  But
I don't want it to mean "private" in the sense used by Java and C++.

Aaron
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFItJLe0F+nu1YWqI0RAuEzAJ4ibDCQllZblttnJKCyngwUQT59XgCfVqWu
0PiVatXZaiubKelYhLueXMs=
=L2Ay
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----