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

[Jim Fulton]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 09:56 AM 7/13/04 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> - There be public interfaces and private interfaces.
>>
>>   Here, bublic or private doesn;t say anything about
>>   security, but about the stability of and long-term
>>   commitment to an API.
> 
> 
> May I suggest that current usage leans towards calling these "published" 
> interfaces?

Yup. That's a great point.

Thanks.

So, we publish interfaces by putting them in an interfaces
module (or package).

Unpublished interfaces are subject to change.

Jim


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