patspiper wrote:
On 22/08/13 19:36, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
I've never seen any suggestion that this breaks backwards
compatibility, and if it does it should probably be raised as a bug-
at least so that it can be documented properly. In any event, as long
as fpc (etc.) knows what version of backend it's using then later
versions should be able to emulate older ones: I don't think anybody'd
be fool enough to try the other way round :-)
Would you trust using the fpc binary (not ppcxxx) and associated
utilities of trunk for your production apps?
I have more than one computer :-)
Frankly though, I'm not sure /what/ I'd trust for production apps. I'd
be reluctant to use FPC _trunk and cautious about using _fixes, and I
think I'd have to say the same about Lazarus... which obviously
complicates things since in general there are always "must have"
features and fixes only in the bleeding-edge revision.
But that takes us back to the original point: I usually set up Lazarus
to invoke ppcXXX.x.y.z rather than the fpc wrapper, at which point I'm
not sure which of the utilities in /usr/local/bin are at all relevant.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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