Peter Memishian writes:
> 
>  > > Yep.  Either Uncommitted or even Consolidation Private would be fine
>  > > here, just to avoid the need to include it in the man page.
>  > 
>  > If you choose Consolidation Private, then you have a lot more 
>  > flexibility in the future.
> 
> I know it's not new with this project, but regarding the test gates as
> being in the same consolidation as ON always struck me as disingenuous
> at best.  (Tests are a major consumer of this interface.)

It's quite intentional, and I don't think it's actually disingenuous.

Historically, as described in 2005/430, we have treated the
specialized test code as either being in the same consolidation as the
thing that it tests, or at least as something that's not an
"engineering product" itself and thus exempt from any architectural
rules that would apply to the rest of the system.

There would otherwise be so many rapidly-changing contracted private
interfaces that we'd be buried in needless ARC work.

There's probably a good argument to be made for weaning the test code
from private interfaces and treating it as a full-fledged product with
all the normal consolidation boundary rules, but that's not quite
where we are today.

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