Details of Updates to Unstable Builds

[JoeyG]

As soon as I see an update to the unstable build, I go for it. I did it again today, and - as always, so far - it works perfectly.

As always, I then checked to see what's been changed. (When it comes to PM, I fall into the leap-before-you-look category .)
http://www.palemoon.org/unstable/releasenotes.shtml

This page now says, "Current trunk progress, v28 beta 3 (major and recent changes only)", and in the list it mentions, "Cleaned up and reorganized the addon manager."

I looked at the AOM in today's update, but I didn't notice any clean-up and reorganization. I understand this might have to do with my third-party theme.

The page also says, "For a more detailed and complete list of changes, check out the commit log."

OK, so I looked at https://github.com/MoonchildProductions ... its/master.

I then found this: https://github.com/MoonchildProductions ... b09640a24c

I don't know anything at all about programming, and I certainly might be wrong, but to me it looks like this page includes the descriptions of the (numerous) changes to the AOM.

Could someone, please, try to summarize for me in layman's terms how those (numerous) changes translate into clean-up and reorganization of the AOM and what they mean in practical terms for end users

Thank you.

[yami_]

Some of those changes prepare Pale Moon UXP for working with Pale Moon Add-on page. For "visual" changes made to Add-ons Manager between b2 and b3 see this commit: 39c7be96de7deb2a6929d6b61013e8ad177ea8ba.

[JoeyG]

Some of those changes prepare Pale Moon UXP for working with Pale Moon Add-on page. For "visual" changes made to Add-ons Manager between b2 and b3 see this commit: 39c7be96de7deb2a6929d6b61013e8ad177ea8ba.

I certainly appreciate your taking the time to reply, but please note that in my post I mentioned that I was looking for a reply "in layman's terms".

I think I understand what you meant when you wrote, "Some of those changes prepare Pale Moon UXP for working with Pale Moon Add-on page". I guess this is back-end stuff.

However, what you've kindly provided in regard to "'visual' changes" is - due to my TPI (total programming ignorance) - sort of analogous to "cat came back from Berkeley waving flags". After a bit of research, I've come to interpret this phrase as meaning (very loosely) "something more complicated than intended/desired".

Anyway, again, thanks for taking the time to reply.

[yami_]

I guess this is back-end stuff.

Yes, it is all back end stuff.

visual' changes

Seems that I was not clear. This changed:
(Pale Moon 27.x)

appearance.png

(Pale Moon 28.x)

themes.png

Off-topic:
Actually cat came back from Berkeley waving flags is a programing related quote...

[JoeyG]

I guess this is back-end stuff.

Yes, it is all back end stuff.

Thank you.

visual' changes

Seems that I was not clear. This changed: ...
(Pale Moon 27.x)
(Pale Moon 28.x)

Got it. Thanks.

Off-topic:
Actually cat came back from Berkeley waving flags is a programing related quote...

Yes, it was apparently related to Unix. After checking, I see that my "loose interpretation" (something more complicated than intended/desired) was actually a bit too loose. I guess the original intent was a criticism of code that had become overly bloated. My bad.