API enhancements

[Stefan Seefeld]

hi there,

now that the release is out, may I bring up the issue
of API enhancements in general and my suggested change
for field attributes in extensions in particular ?

Did anybody review it ? Beside breaking the attribute
ordering (which, according to Nathaniel, didn't follow
any specific requirement anyways) the change is fully
backward compatible, yet it provides a more compact
and clean way for declaring new extensions.

And, to put it into a broader context: what API
change requests would be acceptable for you ? Only
bug fixes ? Or some design cleanup, too ?

Thanks,
		Stefan