Purge Geometry pointer aliases?

[Greg Troxel]

Daniel Baston <dbaston at gmail.com> writes:

> I would suggest that we should only commit to stable branches for the
> purpose of fixing a bug. No, we don't promise a stable API, so it may arise
> that we need/want to change the API in a micro release to accomodate a
> bugfix, though we still should try to avoid it (and generally have, I
> think.)

I agree, and would say there should be a real focus on stability, so
bugfixes only as Daniel says, plus doc improvements.

Packaging systems update to new micro releases.  The social contract is
that such updates are nearly 100% safe, and are just bugfixes.  Once you
change that, even if a micro in name, it isn't really a micro.