On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 09:46:47AM -0700, Brian Pane wrote: > I disagree entirely. There's no need to let the API keep changing > continuously, especially not for the sake of "correctness." All of > our competitors provide API stability. And as a result, people who > develop modules for, say, IIS or IPlanet don't need to worry about > their code breaking with every maintenance release.
I think you're missing a huge point here. You *cannot* tell IIS or iPlanet that their APIs suck. You probably can't even fix problems in their servers. You're stuck. You *can* tell us that our APIs suck and provide patches on ways to improve - especially for 2.0. I think that our APIs will stabilize, but ~6 months into GA, we're not there yet. As I've pointed out earlier, it took well over a year for 1.3 to reach this state. I don't see us being faster. -- justin
