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List:       pear-dev
Subject:    Re: [PEAR-DEV] Stable code with unstable dependancies.
From:       Alexander Merz <alexander.merz () web ! de>
Date:       2003-08-31 12:10:42
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Cipriano Groenendal wrote:

> within its ports, so I was kind of surprised when I noticed this just now.
> Packages can be declared stable while they still depend upon unstable code.

be careful with the meaning of a state of a package

A package is stable if the API is stable and the code do its job without 
any problems.
Beta means there may some undiscovered bugs and/or there are some 
features which are not (completly) implemented yet.

Ie. if package A requires a function from a beta package B, and A passes 
all tests, because the required function from B works as aspected, i see 
no problem to mark A as stable.

You should take a look on the PFC discussion in the archives, this 
dependency problem is already covered by the PEAR community as "should 
PFC classes depends on other PFC classes only?"

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