[Pkg-pascal-devel] fpc 3.0.0~rc1

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

On 04-09-15 23:07, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> 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

And I just found an other "issue". In the install directory there are
three java jar files. Two I believe are in principle available in Debian
(albeit maybe missing required patches) but the third one is I believe
FPC specific. However, until now I could find how to generate this from
the source (and I think that is not built by default). Investigating
further.

Paul


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