[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 170 Remove redundant information from API.txt

[Martin Kosek]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 17:42 +0200, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Martin Kosek wrote:
> 
> > Some Param or Output attributes do not cause API incompatibility
> > (e.g. doc, label or callables) and does not need to be included
> > in API.txt. When these attributes are modified, a lot of bogus
> > changes may get in API.txt - making the real API changes less
> > detectable.
> > 
> > https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2107
> > 
> > -------------------
> > 
> > The list of ignored attributes can be further discussed. I left just the
> > attributes that IMO really influences the Param/Output behavior and that
> > we should be cautious when they are changed.
> > 
> > I had to gzip the patch as the API.txt change is "quite" large.
> ACK, the makeapi patch looks good to me. You didn't need to use tar, 
> though, gzip would have been enough.

Right, my fingers just used the command they are used to. I will make
sure they don't do it next time :-)

Pushed to master.

> 
> Now real question is how to achieve fine-grained compatibility with 
> older releases which I'll look at in ticket #2026.

Yup.

Martin