Major differences between releases

[Morgan Collett]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 16:20, Morgan Collett <morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 21:43, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>> I think it would be a good idea for everyone (activity authors in
>>> particular) to cross-check the changes in what packages are included
>>> in the new stable release, in particular what packages are *going away*:
>>>
>>>        http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/update.1-8.2.html
>>
>> That list is slightly misleading, as it includes several cases where
>> two packages were folded into one or a package was renamed.
>>
>> Others changes are inherited from the F7->F9 transition -- does anyone
>> know if Fedora documents API changes between releases of Fedora?
>>
>>> Also, is there any chance someone will take on
>>>
>>>        http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4695
>>>        (Document API changes between Ship.1 and Update.1 and 8.2)
>>>
>>> after the release before working on the next one?
>>
>> I did see an email from morgs recently mentioning his interest in
>> documenting sugar API changes?
>
> Heh, I did volunteer to broadcast known API changes far and wide, but
> I'll take a look at Sugar API changes as I'm aware of a few of those.
> (Don't let that stop anyone else from looking into other APIs though!)

I've started http://wiki.laptop.org/go/API_changes to track Sugar and
system API changes between releases. It's not very comprehensive so
far - contributions welcome.

Regards
Morgan