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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

Man pages have been created and committed in trunk.
revisions 1188 till 1191.

They should be merged to the RC2/Final branch. 
I have added them to the issues page.

Michael.

On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

>
> 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.