Re: policy suggestion: API docs are not for users

[Joe Phillips <joe.phillips@innovationsw.com>]

On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 17:53, T. Alexander Popiel wrote:

> Thus, the API is in the end-user docs, not just the developer docs.
> I suppose that one could argue that anyone trying to use ant for
> their own programs (instead of just using it as an incidental tool
> for building someone else's program) should install an ant-dev package,
> too... but that seems slightly strange to me, since the person is
> still acting as an end-user for the tool, instead of incorporating
> it into their program.

While you are correct in saying that in some cases, in order to use ant
you need to extend it, I do feel that by extending ant, you then become
an ant developer.  

IMHO, it would be appropriate to have a separate package for those
intending to extend ant as opposed to use it as-is.

-joe
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