sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I think it would be useful to try and specify upfront which public
>classes / methods etc are intended to form part of the public API, to
>distinguish them from items that are public merely to allow internal
>access between packages.

I'd prefer to move things between packages and make them package private if at 
all possible. I should be able to take a look at that over the next few days. I 
have an OS license of Structure 101 and I'll run that over it as well along 
with PMD and friends.

>If changes are later needed to public classes that are documented as
>not being part of the public API, we can potentially break binary
>compatibility if necessary.

Agreed.

>Maybe consider using a separate package name element such as "internal"
>?

If a separate package helps sort out what is API and what isn't then +1. 

Mark


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