On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 11:29:53 PM Steve Dougherty wrote:
> On 03/08/2015 07:25 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 8. März 2015, 10:20:17 schrieb xor:
> >> I assume you made this suggestion of marking the new API unstable
> >> because:
> >> 1) you then wouldn't have to wait for me to reply to your review results
> >> 2) you didn't remember whether the review results contain any blocking
> >> issues when you talked with Arne.
> > 
> > I made this suggestion, because this is a new API and you cannot know
> > how people will use it. Predominantly synchronous usage could change
> > what people need to use the API efficiently.
> 
> ...
> 
> > So please mark it as unstable (for a few releases), so people know
> > that the API is open for change in case real life usage shows up a
> > need for that.
> > 
> > In short: This has nothing to do with the quality of the code, but
> > with community decision making processes
> 
> Well put - and agreed, this mirrors my reasoning. Tests using the API is
> not sufficient to know how it will be useful to use it in client
> applications.
> 
> I will merge this API as-is once it is marked as unstable. Maybe
> something like
> 
> /*
>  * This API is unstable. It will be improved in response to your
>  * feedback.
>  */
> 
> ?

Fixed by commit
https://github.com/xor-freenet/fred-staging/commit/4dd140d3dcf26f619292688eb4e93e7ebf8a6f56

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