drupal/themes
Dries Buytaert 79b016d915 - Patch #216072 by recidive, David Rothstein, ptalindstrom et al: switched from numeric block IDs to string IDs.
The short explanation is that Drupal uses a lot of numeric deltas in the block system; blocks are identified by the 'module' and the 'delta'. In early Drupal, delta was numeric, but somewhere along the line it was changed to be possibly a string. In modern Drupal, block overrides are easily done via block-MODULE-DELTA.tpl.php.  The primary motivation to switch to string IDs everywhere is to make these deltas friendlier to themers:

    block-user-0.tpl.php --> block-user-navigation.tpl.php
    block-user-1.tpl.php --> block-user-login.tpl.php

  You get the picture.
2008-04-10 10:28:23 +00:00
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bluemarine - Patch #221384 by webernet: update core compatibility to Drupal 7. 2008-02-18 19:19:49 +00:00
chameleon - Patch #221384 by webernet: update core compatibility to Drupal 7. 2008-02-18 19:19:49 +00:00
engines/phptemplate - Patch #173486 by scor: fixed code style issues. 2007-10-02 16:19:23 +00:00
garland - Patch #216072 by recidive, David Rothstein, ptalindstrom et al: switched from numeric block IDs to string IDs. 2008-04-10 10:28:23 +00:00
pushbutton - Patch #221384 by webernet: update core compatibility to Drupal 7. 2008-02-18 19:19:49 +00:00
README.txt #209663 minor follow up by keith.smith: improve wording of module and theme readmes 2008-01-25 19:47:58 +00:00

README.txt

This directory is reserved for core theme files. Custom or contributed
themes should be placed in their own subdirectory of the sites/all/themes
directory. For multisite installations, they can also be placed in a subdirectory
under /sites/{sitename}/themes/, where {sitename} is the name of your site
(e.g., www.example.com). This will allow you to more easily update Drupal core files.

For more details, see: http://drupal.org/node/176043