[Zope3-dev] Re: Brainstorm, What constitutes a public API? (was Re: Re: APIs breakage)

[Jim Fulton]

Casey Duncan wrote:
...

> Since we are brainstorming: Maybe public interfaces should derive from a
> "PublicInterface" marker interface, instead of just plain Interface. I
> see two benefits to this:

I don't like this, as the base interfae wouldn't specify behavior.

If I was going to do something like this I would use some sort of meta data.

> OTOH, this would be a lot of bookwork to implement and maybe isn't a big
> enough payoff.

That's my opinion.

Jim

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