Core + Exrtas 2

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 13:59 -0500, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Rex is correct.  We should look to avoid these situations if at all 
> possible.  But sometimes, there is no good alternative.
No disagreement ... if "there is no good alternative" ... I am not
against breaking ABIs/APIs/etc.

But, from an FE background, the situation is conversely: 
People break ABIs/APIs/etc., because they are not aware about doing so,
because they do not care about it, because they blindly follow upstream
(and upstream doesn't care about ABI/API/etc.) or because they think
"having feature XXX outweighs ABI/API/etc.".

Ralf