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

[Paul Gevers]

Awesome.

Paul

On 05-09-15 21:52, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
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