Re: user-visible goals

On 25-feb-04, at 15:16, Bruce Lilly wrote:

> can you provide a useful, objective set of definitions to
> distinguish a "patch" from an "extension".

Let's not play the semantics game. What's important is that sometimes 
we need to add features in awkward ways in order to be compatible. See 
base64. In other situations it is possible to add functionality without 
compromises. The former is good, but the latter is much better.