[Pkg-pascal-devel] [Core] fpc 3.0.0~rc1

[Michael Van Canneyt]

I will create the pages today.

Michael.

On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Abou Al Montacir wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Thank you for these highlights, it makes it easier to understand.
>
> On Sat, 2015-09-05 at 13:46 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Paul Gevers wrote:
> ...
>> .fpm is only needed if you want to use fpmake. It is not similar in concept
>> to .lpk, fpmake.pp is similar in concept to fpc. 
>> .fpm is more similar in concept to the .compiled file that lazarus makes.
> Thanks for this clarification. This makes it easier to understand what those
> files are.
> As the .compiled file are packaged, I assume then .fpm shall be too.
> We shall allow users who want to use fpmake to do so.
>
>> >>
>> >>> ¹ cldrparser, fpcjres, mkarmins, mkinsadd, mkx86ins, pas2fpm, pas2jni,
>> >>> pas2ut, unihelper
>> 
>> I am not sure that all these files should be installed to an end-user system.
>> 
>> - mkinsadd has no use except when you want to make a FPC installer on non
>> -unices.
>> - cldrparser is for internal use only, to create unicode tables.
>> - unihelper is for internal use only, to create unicode tables.
>> - mkarmins is only useful if you want to work on the compiler.
>> - mkx86ins: same as mkarmins
> According to this description we don't need them, however in the past some users
> complained about missing binaries. I'd recommend that we skip them for now and
> if anyone complains we can ask for man pages and add them later.
>
>> I can make manual pages for fpcjres, pas2fpm, pas2jni, pas2ut
>> But for the above, I really don't see the point as I don't think 
>> they should be installed to begin with.
> Ok let's do so. We install only these programs and the others not.
> When do you think you can provide man pages for these? Just to see if we upload
> without or we wait for you. In deed the first upload of any FPC release goes
> through the NEW queue and takes a while. So we prefer to go as fast as possible
> to this NEW queue.

I am busy creating the pages.

Michael.