On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In a message dated 1/2/2005 12:31:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: > > The Free Pascal Team is pleased to announce that FPC version 1.9.6 > (or 2.0.0-RC1) is available and ready for download. > > > > Thanks, Michael. > > Downloaded it this morning and it seems to be working nicely. Do have a > couple issues a couple questions and a monster KUDO. Will do the issues > first: > 1) The Win32 installer does not install the utils folder. It's in the > download, but doesn't get installed. Easily corrected by just unzipping it > manually. Known and fixed for next release. > 2) There is no demo folder, and hence, can't do the simple check with > hello.pp that is referenced in the README Known and fixed for next release. > 3) The source directories on the download sites are still empty. Are they > still coming or am I looking in the wrong place, > which leads to my first question: I think you are looking in the wrong place? > 1) I have been keeping up-to-date at the source level with CVS updates every > couple days. Can I just keep building on my current source tree with CVS > updates or do I need to do a complete new CVS checkout (please say yes, my > network connection stinks!!) You can continue to use CVS. > 2) It's really nice to have debugger (gdb) support in the IDE again. I get > it every time I load a new binary and lose it again every time I install a > snapshot compiling the sources. What the heck do I have to do to keep > getting > the IDE and GDB connected under Windows. I've downloaded every concievable > flavor of GDB I can find (the GNU .gz version, Cygwin, MingW) I'm sure I've > got > every thing I need to keep it working but I'll be darned if I can figure out > what I need to do/configure to make it all work together. This is something for Peter Vreman or Florian Klaempfl. I use Linux, and have never been able to build an IDE with debugger support myself. > > And now the praise and adulation: > Michael et al, your work on the documentation is nothing short of herculean. > While not directly related to this release, the Doc-HTML library is great > and provides a great context-sensitive help under Lazarus. The new RTL.PDF > file > that came with this release is OUTSTANDING. For a non-Delphi (and basically > non-OOP) oldtimer like me, I think this will become my "Newest Testament". > > Thanks for all the hard and great work We aim to please. Stay tuned for more goodies in the future :-) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
