Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 10218 invoked by uid 6000); 8 Apr 1998 14:05:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 10210 invoked from network); 8 Apr 1998 14:05:32 -0000 Received: from valis.worldgate.com (marcs@198.161.84.2) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 8 Apr 1998 14:05:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by valis.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA05697 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:05:31 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:05:31 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: Compromise In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980408004853.008c2da0@hyperreal.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > Let me repeat again: the symbol hiding issue is *separate* from the > lets-give-semantics-to-prefixes issue. *separate*. Let's deal with them > separately. There is no loss of functionality or added confusion to having > everything be ap_ for however long it takes to resolve the second issue. Yes there is, because it means we are changing the "real" API twice. Any backwards compat routines are just that; backwards compat. The real API is with whatever prefixes we choose. Each time we screw with that, we make the API even less stable than it already is.