On Feb 18, 2006, at 7:31 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>
> Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org> writes:
>> YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>>
>>> how did you know that no one uses the api?
>>> once you exported the api, it can be used by someone.
>>
>> but this api was not in any netbsd release, hence, should be
>> considered -- like anything else in -current -- "unstable".
>
> I think if it wasn't in a release Elad is probably correct.

Well, it's not how we've operated before.  But it's water under the  
bridge at this point.

 From now on, however, "unstable and evolving APIs" should maybe be  
handled differently, and not stuffed into a shared library right off  
the bat.

-- thorpej