Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Doug Chamberlin schrieb: Jonas Maebe wrote: On 02 Jan 2010, at 21:56, Doug Chamberlin wrote: 1) Yes, the Users Guide has installation instructions in Chapter 2. However, it warns only to not install the software into directories that contain embedded spaces. It does NOT warn about untarring

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-03 Thread Lou James
I still didn't find out where to get the 2.4.0 version for iphone.. Shouldn't it be under ARM/Mac OS X? -- 樓洵(AquarHEAD) -- Blossoms which were the joys that fell, And leaves, the hopes that yet remain. -- http://www.AquarHEAD.com ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Lou James schrieb: I still didn't find out where to get the 2.4.0 version for iphone.. Shouldn't it be under ARM/Mac OS X? No. The directories are named by host operating system so the arm-macosx cross compiler is in ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.0/i386-macosx/

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-03 Thread Lou James
Oh I see. Thanks Happy New Year!~ 2010/1/3 Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org Lou James schrieb: I still didn't find out where to get the 2.4.0 version for iphone.. Shouldn't it be under ARM/Mac OS X? No. The directories are named by host operating system so the arm-macosx cross

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-03 Thread Peter W A Wood
Jonas Maebe wrote: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/6 Note that even Delphi doesn't have them yet (it might also turn up in Delphi in the future). Looks as something related to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_function#Delphi ? If so then this is already implemented in

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Peter W A Wood schrieb: Jonas Maebe wrote: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/6 Note that even Delphi doesn't have them yet (it might also turn up in Delphi in the future). Looks as something related to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_function#Delphi ? If so then this is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Peter W A Wood schrieb: Jonas Maebe wrote: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/6 Note that even Delphi doesn't have them yet (it might also turn up in Delphi in the future). Looks as something related to:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: I still don't get what's the real use of such constructs? I see only that it seems to encourage a hacky scripting language like coding style? Or like Javascript. That one gives me a headache when just looking at it :( I don't understand

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-03 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Florian Klaempfl wrote: Doug Chamberlin schrieb: Anyone know how soon this will be incorporated into the tar file that is posted as the latest 2.4 download? Never. 2.4.0 is out and finished. OK. anyone know when this fix will be incorporated into the next tarball posted to be the latest

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-03 Thread Vincent Snijders
Doug Chamberlin schreef: Florian Klaempfl wrote: Doug Chamberlin schrieb: Anyone know how soon this will be incorporated into the tar file that is posted as the latest 2.4 download? Never. 2.4.0 is out and finished. OK. anyone know when this fix will be incorporated into the next tarball

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 02 Jan 2010, at 07:27, Anthony Walter wrote: I read the user changes document which seemed to consist of a list of subtle changes. My question is does 2.4.0 put forward any major changes and if so in what document are those changes described. There's the included whatsnew.txt document

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
Jonas Maebe wrote: and other language changes such as closures etc. Unavailable (I don't think anyone is even working on that). What is this? Any document to read about 'closures'? Best regards, Paul Ishenin. ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 02 Jan 2010, at 11:34, Paul Ishenin wrote: Jonas Maebe wrote: and other language changes such as closures etc. Unavailable (I don't think anyone is even working on that). What is this? Any document to read about 'closures'? http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/6 Note that

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 02 Jan 2010, at 03:53, Doug Chamberlin wrote: For my new year's resolution I'm going to commit to FPC and Lazarus. So, I'm installing the latest in a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 VM and diving in. I'll be pushing all this software hard and will probably be coming here for help. Then this is indeed

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 02 Jan 2010, at 04:12, Doug Chamberlin wrote: Problem #2: I decided to make a contribution by adding a note to the installation docs about needing to install from a location without embedded spaces in the directory path. I went to the www.freepascal.org and could not find any suitable

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Ishenin
Jonas Maebe wrote: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/6 Note that even Delphi doesn't have them yet (it might also turn up in Delphi in the future). Looks as something related to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_function#Delphi ? If so then this is already implemented in

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Juha Manninen
On lauantai, 2. tammikuuta 2010 04:53:16 Doug Chamberlin wrote: For my new year's resolution I'm going to commit to FPC and Lazarus. So, I'm installing the latest in a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 VM and diving in. I'll be pushing all this software hard and will probably be coming here for help.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 02 Jan 2010, at 12:00, Juha Manninen wrote: I also looked at FPC page and wiki page and there are no instructions for installation! How is it possible? The readme.txt that's normally included with every FPC installation package does include installation instructions for most platforms.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Juha Manninen wrote: On lauantai, 2. tammikuuta 2010 04:53:16 Doug Chamberlin wrote: For my new year's resolution I'm going to commit to FPC and Lazarus. So, I'm installing the latest in a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 VM and diving in. I'll be pushing all this software hard and will

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 13:00 +0200, Juha Manninen wrote: On lauantai, 2. tammikuuta 2010 04:53:16 Doug Chamberlin wrote: Things are easy if there is a distro package for FPC. I am sure the main distros will have a package for fpc 2.4.0 in few days. Problem with that is that for distro's which

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Juha Manninen
On lauantai, 2. tammikuuta 2010 13:18:49 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I guess you didn't read the documentation then. It is published on the website: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/user/user.html Chapter 2 is all about installing. In particular, section 2.2.1 says something about

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Anthony Walter
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Paul Ishenin webpi...@mail.ru wrote: Jonas Maebe wrote: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/6 Note that even Delphi doesn't have them yet (it might also turn up in Delphi in the future). Looks as something related to:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Juha Manninen wrote: I also looked at FPC page and wiki page and there are no instructions for installation! How is it possible? The only link for FPC installation is buried under Lazarus documentation (!) :

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-02 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 02 Jan 2010, at 21:56, Doug Chamberlin wrote: 1) Yes, the Users Guide has installation instructions in Chapter 2. However, it warns only to not install the software into directories that contain embedded spaces. It does NOT warn about untarring the tarballs into such directories.

[fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
Happy New Year! As a special present, We have placed a new major release of the Free Pascal Compiler, version 2.4.0 on our ftp-servers. Changes that may break backwards compatibility are documented at: http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.0 Downloads are available at: the main FTP

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Boris Samorodov said: Downloads are available at: the main FTP server at ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.4.0/ Seems that that should be ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.0/ (dist instead of beta) Indeed ... ftp pwd Remote directory:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-01 Thread Thierry Coq
Marco, Happy New Year too, and thanks to all the team for this great work! The betas were exciting and this version will be undoubtedly great too! Thierry Marco van de Voort wrote: Happy New Year! As a special present, We have placed a new major release of the Free Pascal Compiler, version

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-01 Thread Mark Emerson
Dear FPC Team, THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXTRAORDINARY WORK AND DEDICATION!!! Dunno what we would do without you!!! Happy New Year to you all, and to all your dear ones, and to all FPC users world-wide. May this be the year when SIGNIFICANTLY more people come to realize the FPC is the BEST

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Thanks for all the great work that has gone into 2.4.0! For my new year's resolution I'm going to commit to FPC and Lazarus. So, I'm installing the latest in a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 VM and diving in. I'll be pushing all this software hard and will probably be coming here for help. First problem:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Sorry about all the cross posting. I didn't think such cross posting was typically used and didn't even think to check the reply-to addresses. Problem #2: I decided to make a contribution by adding a note to the installation docs about needing to install from a location without embedded

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-01 Thread Anthony Walter
I read the user changes document which seemed to consist of a list of subtle changes. My question is does 2.4.0 put forward any major changes and if so in what document are those changes described. I am interested in reading about changes such as official generic support, changes to support COM