Re: splitting source packages

[Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>]

Hi,

Neil Williams:
> By having separate source packages, a stable API becomes mandatory.

You're correct in that it is easier to keep an API stable when you have
separate repositories. But that is not a hard requirement. There are other
ways to keep APIs stable. Like, for instance, publishing a specification
(once you _have_ a stable API) and sticking to that.

But when things are in flux and you're in the process of figuring out what
the API should look like in the first place, having multiple places to
update, which can and will get out of sync, is no fun.

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-- Matthias Urlichs