On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 6:17 AM Tamás Cservenák <[email protected]> wrote: > > re Hyrum Law, let me quote its first part: > "With a sufficient number of users of an API..." > We (Maven project) clearly define what is, and what is not "an API". > Stop it, please.
No, no we do not. API is a well understood term of the art in software development in general and in Java in particular. The Maven project does not define it. The problem here is precisely that some members think they can say "pretty please don't use this API that we've marked public" and have it mean something. If you don't want a method to be used by client software, don't mark it public. That's the only distinction that matters. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
