Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:37:19PM -0800, John Plocher wrote:
>
>> Danek Duvall wrote:
>>> Perhaps we could keep track of these interfaces...
>> If you are going to do all that, why not just do a contract - it is
>> just as much work, plus it is a well known mechanism.
>
> If we slimmed the contracts down, perhaps. They're verbose and in
> legalese, which makes them a real pain in the ass to deal with. Plus they
> require a manager's signature, which is one of the things I'd like to
> eliminate for this class of problems.
Perhaps along with John's Indiana checklist we can have a short-form
contract for those that take the common case for Volatile interfaces
(notification of new versions only, with a promise to accurately version
the packages so that IPS can manage the dependencies correctly, but
no promise to maintain compatibility).
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
