Re: [fpc-devel] Getting 2.6.1 from svn

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Maebe
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Wed, 05 Sep 2012: Thanks Jonas, noted. I'm going to step back a little and build a clean 2.6.0 from an fpcbuild .zip, build a Lazarus 1.0, and then see how many issues still give obvious problems. Mantis suggests that the issues I reported in the latter part of l

Re: [fpc-devel] Getting 2.6.1 from svn

2012-09-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jonas Maebe wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Wed, 05 Sep 2012: Marco van de Voort wrote: Is there a specific revision number that is known to be OK for this? I'm trying to do notes for somebody off-list, and there's a code-generation patch in 2.6.1 that's needed for SPARC. Mattias already

Re: [fpc-devel] Getting 2.6.1 from svn

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Maebe
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Wed, 05 Sep 2012: Marco van de Voort wrote: Is there a specific revision number that is known to be OK for this? I'm trying to do notes for somebody off-list, and there's a code-generation patch in 2.6.1 that's needed for SPARC. Mattias already answered that. T

Re: [fpc-devel] Getting 2.6.1 from svn

2012-09-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: Is there a specific revision number that is known to be OK for this? I'm trying to do notes for somebody off-list, and there's a code-generation patch in 2.6.1 that's needed for SPARC. Mattias already answered that. The last two days 100+ revs were merged, mostly fpd

Re: [fpc-devel] Getting 2.6.1 from svn

2012-09-05 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > Referring to http://www.freepascal.org/develop.var is there a reason why > the "Fixes to 2.6.x" section gives a URI for fixes_2_2 ? Take your pick: 1. it is just an example 2. lazy webadmins 3. it is fixed in svn > Is there a specific revision n

Re: [fpc-devel] Getting 2.6.1 from svn

2012-09-05 Thread Mattias Gaertner
Mark Morgan Lloyd hat am 5. September 2012 um 11:38 geschrieben: > Referring to http://www.freepascal.org/develop.var is there a reason why > the "Fixes to 2.6.x" section gives a URI for fixes_2_2 ? > > What's correct in this context- branches/fixes_2_6/ or > branches/fixes_2_6_0/ ? fixes_2_6 S

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Martin said: function RunCommand(const cmdline:string;var outputstring:string):boolean; deprecated; Sorry seen to late, it is deprecated... Seems that FPC is missing the functionality for "commandline" (which is a prope

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Martin said: > > function RunCommand(const cmdline:string;var > > outputstring:string):boolean; deprecated; > > Sorry seen to late, it is deprecated... > > Seems that FPC is missing the functionality for "commandline" (which is > a property that existed for very long).

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Martin wrote: On 05/09/2012 10:38, Martin wrote: function RunCommand(const cmdline:string;var outputstring:string):boolean; deprecated; Sorry seen to late, it is deprecated... Seems that FPC is missing the functionality for "commandline" (which is a property that exi

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread Martin
On 05/09/2012 10:38, Martin wrote: function RunCommand(const cmdline:string;var outputstring:string):boolean; deprecated; Sorry seen to late, it is deprecated... Seems that FPC is missing the functionality for "commandline" (which is a property that existed for very long). Seen that it is n

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Martin said: > > On non-windows, each element in the params list is passed as-is in the > > argv > > array; No changes are performed at all. > > FPC itself supplies a function > > function RunCommand(const cmdline:string;var > outputstring:string):boolean; deprecated; >

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread Martin
On 05/09/2012 09:55, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On non-windows, each element in the params list is passed as-is in the argv array; No changes are performed at all. FPC itself supplies a function function RunCommand(const cmdline:string;var outputstring:string):boolean; deprecated;

[fpc-devel] Getting 2.6.1 from svn

2012-09-05 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Referring to http://www.freepascal.org/develop.var is there a reason why the "Fixes to 2.6.x" section gives a URI for fixes_2_2 ? What's correct in this context- branches/fixes_2_6/ or branches/fixes_2_6_0/ ? I'm trying to find a 2.6.1 that will compile Lazarus 1.0. Yesterday's daily snapsho

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread Martin
On 05/09/2012 09:55, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On non-windows, each element in the params list is passed as-is in the argv array; No changes are performed at all. Does FPC offer a utility function to break a "shell style" commandline into the correct arguments? --foo=abc --bar="

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread Jonas Maebe
michael.vancanneyt wrote on Wed, 05 Sep 2012: On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Martin wrote: I know TProcess changed from a single command-line to a listof arguments. So I couldn't find the User Changes note for this. You don't need the 'User changes'. It is documented. Press F1. Well, one of the rea

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 05/09/12 09:55, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: I know TProcess changed from a single command-line to a listof arguments. So I couldn't find the User Changes note for this. You don't need the 'User changes'. It is documented. Press F1. Which reminds me... I sent a process.xml patch to M

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Martin said: > That is not always possible. And the quotes work on most platforms. Define "platform" in the context of execution. Both API and shell? > An application may however have a list of arguments in a single string > (e.g. the IDE ask the user to specify extra a

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Martin wrote: From http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22801 You should not pass quotes. The quotes are only needed in a shell. That is not always possible. And the quotes work on most platforms. Windows is a

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Martin wrote: From http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22801 You should not pass quotes. The quotes are only needed in a shell. That is not always possible. And the quotes work on most platforms. Windows is an exception (as usual). See below. I know TProcess chan

Re: [fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread Martin
For reference http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22751 ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

[fpc-devel] TProcess and arguments with quotes

2012-09-05 Thread Martin
From http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22801 You should not pass quotes. The quotes are only needed in a shell. That is not always possible. And the quotes work on most platforms. I know TProcess changed from a single command-line to a listof arguments. So I couldn't find the User Change