[Zope3-dev] Re: APIs breakage

[Jim Fulton]

Casey Duncan wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:03:24 -0400
> Stephan Richter <srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> wrote:
> 

...

> This is not meant to bust anyone's chops, but how exactly does one
> *know* whether something is a public api or not? In many projects (Zope2
> especially) it is just lore and not formalized. Interfaces of course can
> help, but there are certainly "private" classes with interfaces in Zope
> 3.

Yup.

> In a general sense in Zope 3, what does it mean for an API to be
> private? Who should or shouldn't use it? The current module, package,
> the framework, zope.app?

I think we need to decide this.  In this case, the functions weren't in
any interface.

Jim

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