On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:46:19 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:29:40 +0200 > > "Tomas Hajny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 19 Oct 07, at 13:14, Micha Nelissen wrote: > > > > Jonas Maebe wrote: > > > > > This is not true. You can perfectly compile a compiler using > > > > > the previous' release rtl. > > > > > > > > Sure this is not the question. > > > > > > > > > E.g. the people developing using the fp IDE often > > > > > do this (because they have a project for the compiler, but > > > > > that one does not automatically compile the rtl). > > > > > > > > Adapt the project to use the new RTL ? Anyway, seems > > > > "dangerous" to me, not testing possible RTL regressions then. > > > > > > > > > A while ago, Peter removed several > > > > > dependencies of the compiler on the new rtl (related to endian > > > > > swapping routines) for this reason. > > > > > > > > I see the reason is not really coming out, but I'll stop now. > > > > > > Well, I'd certainly have one (more) reason not to > > > put it into RTL - I don't think that support for > > > .ppu file format is something so general and > > > commonly used by (Free) Pascal programmers that > > > it should become part of our RTL. > > > > And another: > > A lazarus built with fpc 2.0.4 should be able to read the ppu of > > 2.3.x. Even though the ppu format is very stable, it is not carved > > in stone. > > It's built so that a newer version can always read an older PPU file > and vice versa: an old ppu unit can read a newer file, but just > doesn't know how to interpret certain blocks. Are we talking about a complete ppu parser or something to only read the property info? > > So, maybe it would be best to keep a working copy of the ppu reader > > unit in the lazarus svn and give it a distinct name? > > I think such a unit could best go in the packages, since it is > tightly bound to FPC, and definitely non-visual ? Well, it should be bound to FPC, but it should not be bound to a specific FPC version. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
