On 3/30/06, David W. Van Couvering <David.Vancouvering@sun.com> wrote:
>
> > Just on first glance the table is fairly restrictive, but generally
> > looks good. I would think that environment variables and install
> > directory hierarchy would be marked unstable, since it seems
> > reasonable that we could change our use of environment variables
> > (since they're only used in the scripts) or move things around in the
> > distributions between minor releases.
>
> Isn't it possible that scripts written by our users would also make use
> of (e.g. set) environment variables and depend on the install directory
> hierarchy? That said, as long as we're clear as to how stable these
> interfaces are, our users can be made aware of that and take the
> necessary precautions (like define directory paths in a variable rather
> than hardcode them).
I don't think much change will actually be happening to either the
variables or layout, I just don't think it is unreasonable to be able
to change them significantly, if we wanted to, in a minor release,
since they are not "core" APIs as such. I would certainly expect them
to remain stable for maintenance/point releases, though.
andrew
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