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

[Alexander Bokovoy]

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.

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