Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.6.x branched, trunk becomes 2.7.1

2011-08-05 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 05 Aug 2011, at 03:33, Alexander Klenin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 02:09, Jonas Maebe wrote: >> Branching for a major release is most appropriate when trunk is in a settled >> down/stable state. It's not intended to happen right after a number of major >> last minute changes have been co

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.6.x branched, trunk becomes 2.7.1

2011-08-05 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 19:39, Jonas Maebe wrote: >> So, TAChart will have to carry numlib fork until 2.6.2 ? > > It's always possible. FPC releases are not based on "feature X will certainly > be in it". We tried that (we were not going to do the next major release > before the cpstrnew branch w

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.6.x branched, trunk becomes 2.7.1

2011-08-05 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 05 Aug 2011, at 10:49, Alexander Klenin wrote: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 19:39, Jonas Maebe wrote: So, TAChart will have to carry numlib fork until 2.6.2 ? It's always possible. FPC releases are not based on "feature X will certainly be in it". We tried that (we were not going to do the

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.6.x branched, trunk becomes 2.7.1

2011-08-05 Thread LacaK
That's why we have snapshots. The main purpose of a release is to have something that is stable and which doesn't break previously working code (except in known cases documented at http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk ). Are there published some rules, what breakage is acceptable,

Re: [fpc-devel] New FPC Target: AROS

2011-08-05 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, August 4, 2011 22:32, Marcus Sackrow wrote: > Diff (on top of 18076) for new Target: AROS (i386) > tried to keep the diff as short as possible but its still 750 K, > so I placed it on my Webpage: > > http://www.alb42.de/AROS-Target.diff > > Compiler, RTL and Package: arosunits > > I hope it

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.6.x branched, trunk becomes 2.7.1

2011-08-05 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 05 Aug 2011, at 12:19, LacaK wrote: That's why we have snapshots. The main purpose of a release is to have something that is stable and which doesn't break previously working code (except in known cases documented at http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk ). Are there published s

Re: [fpc-devel] New FPC Target: AROS

2011-08-05 Thread Marcus Sackrow
On 05.08.2011 12:27, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Thu, August 4, 2011 22:32, Marcus Sackrow wrote: Diff (on top of 18076) for new Target: AROS (i386) tried to keep the diff as short as possible but its still 750 K, so I placed it on my Webpage: http://www.alb42.de/AROS-Target.diff Compiler, RTL and P

Re: [fpc-devel] New FPC Target: AROS

2011-08-05 Thread Karoly Balogh
Hi, On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Marcus Sackrow wrote: > perhaps I didnt choose the name for the define well > in fact I'm a little bit in trouble here because normaly at amiga > /xxx/ would be in something like ../xxx/ (in Linux) and so its implemented in > FExpand atm, > but the make util (and much oth

Re: [fpc-devel] New FPC Target: AROS

2011-08-05 Thread Karoly Balogh
Hi, On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Karoly Balogh wrote: > The problem with your example in particular that /System/Development as > Amiga path is perfectly valid, as it means ../System/Development in POSIX > path, not System:Development/ Having this in FExpand() affects all apps > using the RTL on AROS, and

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 2.6.x branched, trunk becomes 2.7.1

2011-08-05 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
On 5/8/2011 03:05, LacaK wrote: Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote / napĂ­sal(a): On 4/8/2011 09:21, LacaK wrote: Is this "branching" somehow related to preparation of release some next version of FPC (2.5.x ? or so) ? I am asking because, there are waiting some bugs/features which I would be h