[Pkg-pascal-devel] fpc 3.0.0~rc1

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi Paul,

CCing FPC core in case someone would like to comment on below question.

On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 13:42 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Apart from updating the d/copyright file I am close to ready with 3.0.0rc1.
> 
> However, two details that I like your opinion on (especially with Abous
> knowledge):
> 1) there are multiple new binaries¹. Do we want to ship them all? I
> guess we do, but they all are missing man pages and their help isn't
> very good typically.
Yes, generally we want to provide all binaries. As a first step we can just
generate man pages from the help what ever the quality is. Then we can improve
that while the package is waiting in NEW.
> 2) There are multiple new files in
> usr/lib/fpc/3.0.0/fpmkinst/x86_64-linux/ all with the extension .fpm
> (fpmake files). Should they be shipped, are they useful after the build?
I suppose yes.
I'm not very knowledgeable about fpmake but I suppose that users who want to use
fpmake with some packages will need them. I'm here thinking about .lpk for
Lazarus. I think .fpm and .lpk are quite similar in the concept, but not the
implementation. But this is a pure speculation.

> ¹ cldrparser, fpcjres, mkarmins, mkinsadd, mkx86ins, pas2fpm, pas2jni,
> pas2ut, unihelper

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Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir