[arc-discuss] When should interfaces be private?

[Philip Brown]

John Plocher wrote:
> Philip Brown wrote:
>> Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>>> ....
>>> But I suspect getting a "contract" on some private interface needn't 
>>> be incredibly
>>> difficult,
>>
>> how exactly does someone (outside of sun, who is merely a "volunteer", 
>> ie: not putting money in) get such a contract?
> 
> 
> It takes two steps:
> [...]
> 
> Both are intentionally difficult, because, in general, cross project and 
> cross consolidation contracts break the architectural abstractions that make it
> possible to maintain our systems.


So then it would seem, counter to Richard's original guess, it is by 
definition, "incredibly difficult" :-D