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From:
Sawyer X
Date:
August 7, 2016 09:34
Subject:
Re: Internals:: undocumented
Message ID:
199c7581-0e24-24cc-2e13-19b0e52c4dc5@gmail.com
On 08/06/2016 03:39 PM, Tony Cook wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 09:05:23AM -0400, James E Keenan wrote:
>> What is Internals?
> Internals is deliberately undocumented, unsupported.

Not documenting as a form of keeping possible users away feels like
security by obscurity. Documentation should not imply support. We can
document it clearly for other core developers and note *very* clearly
that it is unsupported.
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