[development] Drupal 7/8 API Change notification: .gitignore file in repository

[Randy Fay]

*We try to notify this list when API changes are made in Drupal, so contrib
and custom developers have a chance to fix their code before they have the
pain of figuring out why it's broken.*

(issue <http://drupal.org/node/917492>) OK, so this isn't really an API
change, but it may affect you in the same way, and since I was involved in
it, I'll 'fess up. We have added a .gitignore file to the git repositories
in Drupal 7 and 8. If you already had a .gitignore file, and the one that
was added does not meet your needs, please see #37 in that
issue<http://drupal.org/node/917492#comment-4386912>for workarounds.

BTW: I will probably announce Drupal *7* api changes should they happen, but
won't be announcing Drupal 8 changes, perhaps ever. We hope to have a much
better technique for this, see Make API Changes in Drupal Core be
Nodes<http://drupal.org/node/648218>.


Thanks,
-Randy




On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Randy Fay <randy at randyfay.com> wrote:

> *We try to notify this list when API changes are made in Drupal 7, so
> contrib and custom developers have a chance to fix their code before they
> have the pain of figuring out why it's broken.*
>
> (issue <http://drupal.org/node/669510#comment-3846552>) There is a new way
> to declare pages as "admin pages" which should be themed with the admin
> theme. hook_admin_paths() went in in this issue. If your module is doing
> tricky things with 'theme callback' in hook_menu() to set some of your
> module's pages to use the admin theme, take it out and use
> hook_admin_paths(). Developers doing advanced things with 'theme callback'
> will probably want to look at the issue summary<http://drupal.org/node/669510#comment-3846552>in general.
>
> (issue <http://drupal.org/node/986992#comment-3825334>) There was a subtle
> change to field module which affects only highly advanced modules like date
> and views. Read the issue summary if that is you and you know what an etid
> is, or if you find "etid" grepping your code. I had to promise chx that I'd
> say "if you are affected by this then it's very, very likely you are doing
> it wrong."
>
>
> -Randy
>
> --
> Randy Fay
> Drupal Module and Site Development
> randy at randyfay.com
> +1  970.462.7450
>
>


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Randy Fay
Drupal Module and Site Development
randy at randyfay.com
+1  970.462.7450
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