>>>>> "John" == John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Jim> The range of activity permitted by the PACs is quite constrained,
Jim> because the type of release and thus primary release content is set
Jim> elsewhere.

John> Yup - in this arena, Sun is explicitly giving up that level of
John> control for the ON Consolidation.  Of course, it is devoutly
John> hoping that the engineers it has who are working as part of the
John> community don't all suddenly take leave of their senses and start
John> doing Stupid Things(TM)....

I think there's an implicit assumption that major releases should not be
necessary, that we can figure out how to add things in a way that
doesn't break our compatibility constraints.  (I'm not trying to imply
it's a bad assumption; just trying to make it explicit.)

mike
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