Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

Sometimes things are marked experimental not because they are unstable
in the sense that they contain a disproportionate ammount of bugs we
have yet to notice, but rather are unstable in the sense that their
behaviour or API may change in future versions - because the developers
havn't quite got a feel for what might be optimal in the majority case
yet.

And all the more reason they can't exist in stable.  You *CAN'T* change
the API of any shipped module, because you are forced to bump the module
major if the resulting change is ABI-incompatible.  That hurts every
third party installed module, not simply the affected module.


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