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Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)



On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:00:17 +0200, Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr> said: 

> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 07:55:00PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
>> If you do not stick to the documented interfaces, you lose the
>> ability in my eyes to express outrage when the interfaces you use
>> change.

> Except one important difference -- in this case, NOTHING CHANGES in
> the interface if the policy proposal is accepted.

	We just disallow some usage that has been explicitley stated
 to work.  A gratuitous change, with no compelling use cases, or even
 a rationale beyond "why not?", hopefully shall not be accepted.

	manoj

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