John Plocher wrote: > Philip Brown wrote: >> Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >>> .... >>> But I suspect getting a "contract" on some private interface needn't >>> be incredibly >>> difficult, >> >> how exactly does someone (outside of sun, who is merely a "volunteer", >> ie: not putting money in) get such a contract? > > > It takes two steps: > [...] > > Both are intentionally difficult, because, in general, cross project and > cross consolidation contracts break the architectural abstractions that make > it > possible to maintain our systems.
So then it would seem, counter to Richard's original guess, it is by definition, "incredibly difficult" :-D
