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| author | Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com> | 2013-09-18 13:38:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com> | 2013-09-18 14:44:10 +0200 |
| commit | 8001d9f4fed8f32410128b180d881d1131317255 (patch) | |
| tree | 69bf3c4656432fcf6b1139892dd99feb7dc7024e /offapi/README | |
| parent | cbea5d30b99b93b2118f5c1a081740e5880f18c1 (diff) | |
Replace binary type_references with human-readable .idl versions
...obtained from the old .rdb files via "unoidl-read --published". This removes
the need for update-rdb.sh.
Change-Id: I73c0d026af7e27370602f83c61dfa76fc4d17a83
Diffstat (limited to 'offapi/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | offapi/README | 23 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/offapi/README b/offapi/README index 90c4ee5290dd..4417ecc749b6 100644 --- a/offapi/README +++ b/offapi/README @@ -3,12 +3,17 @@ Contains all of the IDL files except those in [[udkapi]] i.e. the interfaces that are specific to the OppenOffice.org application. An artificial (?) separation. -The reference offapi/type_reference/offapi.rdb and -udkapi/type_reference/udkapi.rdb (formerly combined into a single -offapi/type_reference/types.rdb), used to detect inadvertent incompatible -changes, are maintained via offapi/type_reference/update-rdb.sh (see its usage -message for details) for cases where we deliberately /do/ become incompatible. -Old such cases are listed in offapi/type_reference/typelibrary_history.txt, -newer such cases are recorded in the git log of (now removed) -offapi/type_reference/types.rdb, new such cases are recorded in the git logs of -offapi/type_reference/offapi.rdb and udkapi/type_reference/udkapi.rdb. +The reference offapi/type_reference/offapi.idl and +udkapi/type_reference/udkapi.idl (formerly combined into a single +offapi/type_reference/types.rdb) are used to detect inadvertent incompatible +changes. They are plain-text .idl files (not stricly lexicographically sorted, +though, so they satisfy the .idl file requirements for no forward dependencies), +so in cases where we deliberately /do/ become incompatible they can be modified +manually. + +Old such cases of deliberately becoming incompatible are listed in +offapi/type_reference/typelibrary_history.txt, newer such cases are recorded in +the git logs of (now superseded) offapi/type_reference/types.rdb, +offapi/type_reference/offapi.rdb, and udkapi/type_reference/udkapi.rdb, new such +cases are recorded in the git logs of offapi/type_reference/offapi.idl and +udkapi/type_reference/udkapi.idl. |