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Robert Accettura  
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 More options May 20 2008, 5:38 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: "Robert Accettura" <rob...@accettura.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:38:12 -0400
Local: Tues, May 20 2008 5:38 pm
Subject: Re: What's next after Firefox 3 and Gecko 1.9?
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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Mike Shaver <mike.sha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> We should _break_ as few APIs as possible, but no fewer.  Additive
> changes to unfrozen APIs should be looked at with a kind eye, and more
> disruptive changes should come alongside a case for why the API break
> is significantly better than an additional new API or such clumsier
> alternative.

Is there any way to perhaps analyze source code of open source products out
there for what API's they are currently using?  So decisions could be made
with some data at hand?  Either spidering open sour svn/cvs/hg repo's or
perhaps even a script that could be run by the api user when they build, and
a report could be sent to some webtool that kept track of api's and number
of instances.

Then when deciding if it's worth breaking API _____, there's solid data on
who that effects outside of the mozilla tree.

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Robert Accettura
rob...@accettura.com


 
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