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authorStephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>2012-12-12 18:15:01 +0100
committerStephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>2012-12-12 18:15:01 +0100
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Clean up offapi/type_reference/ documentation
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@@ -2,3 +2,10 @@ 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/types.rdb, used to detect inadvertent
+incompatible changes, is 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, new such cases are recorded in
+the git log of offapi/type_reference/types.rdb.