Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-09-06 Thread Anthony Walter
Regarding the FPC 3.0 what's new language features, I think there is are more new than what's listed on the wiki. Off the top of my head here two language features not present in 2.6.4: * Helpers now work on intrinsic types such as string and integer (eg. StringHelper = record helper for string)

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-09-05 Thread Joost van der Sluis
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van:Luiz Americo Pereira Camara <luizameri...@gmail.com> Verzonden: zo 30-08-2015 19:56 Onderwerp: Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release Aan:FPC developers' list <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org>; > Em 30/08/2015 12:43, "Marc

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-09-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Joost van der Sluis wrote: -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van:Luiz Americo Pereira Camara <luizameri...@gmail.com> Verzonden: zo 30-08-2015 19:56 Onderwerp: Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release Aan: FPC developers' list <fpc-devel@lists.freep

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-30 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 30/08/15 11:18, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 30/08/15 09:35, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Adding a new package is really not done between a release candidate and the final release. And merging it can always introduce a new build or packaging

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-30 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 30/08/15 09:35, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: Any specific reason why packages/googleapi is absent from 3.0? None specific. It was simply committed to SVN after the branch was made. In theory, there should be no danger to include

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 30/08/15 09:35, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: Any specific reason why packages/googleapi is absent from 3.0? None specific. It was simply committed to SVN after the branch was made. In

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: 2015-08-25 12:50 GMT-03:00 Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl: Hello We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.0 on our ftp servers. You can help improve the upcoming 3.0.0 release by

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-29 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 29/08/15 11:16, John Marino wrote: Hi, I'm retesting an diffset to put FPC 3.0 in FreeBSD ports. I notice the file is named 3.0.0-rc1 with a similar tag in github's svn mirror, but when I build it, the version is listed as 3.0.1 The version number in the tagged svn version is definitely

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-29 Thread John Marino
On 8/29/2015 11:31 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 29/08/15 11:16, John Marino wrote: Hi, I'm retesting an diffset to put FPC 3.0 in FreeBSD ports. I notice the file is named 3.0.0-rc1 with a similar tag in github's svn mirror, but when I build it, the version is listed as 3.0.1 The version

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-29 Thread John Marino
On 8/25/2015 5:50 PM, Joost van der Sluis wrote: Hello We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.0 on our ftp servers. You can help improve the upcoming 3.0.0 release by downloading and testing this release. If you want you can report what you have

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-28 Thread Maciej Izak
2015-08-25 17:50 GMT+02:00 Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl: You can help improve the upcoming 3.0.0 release by downloading and testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_3.0.0 I have created short report in mentioned wiki

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.08.2015 10:56 schrieb Maciej Izak hnb.c...@gmail.com: 2015-08-25 17:50 GMT+02:00 Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl: You can help improve the upcoming 3.0.0 release by downloading and testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done here:

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Maciej Izak wrote: 2015-08-25 17:50 GMT+02:00 Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl: A preview of the 3.0.0 docs is available at http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/3.0.0/ Small bug in documentation for

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-28 Thread Maciej Izak
2015-08-25 17:50 GMT+02:00 Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl: A preview of the 3.0.0 docs is available at http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/3.0.0/ Small bug in documentation for http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/3.0.0/rtl/system/finalizearray.html in description is described

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-27 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Thu, August 27, 2015 15:03, Frank Grotelueschen wrote: At 10:42 26.08.2015, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Am 26.08.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Marco van de Voort: .. Yup, and remove w2k and NT(4) too. While they might work, they are no longer formally supported and tested afaik. Question is: if the

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-27 Thread Frank Grotelueschen
At 10:42 26.08.2015, Florian Klaempfl wrote: Am 26.08.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Marco van de Voort: .. Yup, and remove w2k and NT(4) too. While they might work, they are no longer formally supported and tested afaik. Question is: if the first is the target system and the latter the host

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Tomas Hajny wrote: On Thu, August 27, 2015 15:03, Frank Grotelueschen wrote: Please don't stop support for W2K. It was the first 'full useable' Windows based on NT-Kernel and is still used today. I don't think that the Win32 target maintainers would want to break working under W2K on

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: I still have a few NT4 app servers, and a very small number of W2K systems. Possession That's not the important question, rather how much new software do you develop for those? ___ fpc-devel maillist -

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: I still have a few NT4 app servers, and a very small number of W2K systems. Possession That's not the important question, rather how much new software do you develop for those? I'd not expect to ship anything

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-26 Thread Kazantsev Alexey
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:50:50 +0400, Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl wrote: We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.0 on our ftp servers. This bugs is unworthy to be released in 3.0 :) http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=27349

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-26 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, LacaK said: i386, x86_64, PowerPC or Sparc processor Win32: - MS Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7 (Win95, 98 and ME are not supported in FPC officially any longer). But here is Win95,98,Me explicitly excluded. I think, that at first place it should be also

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-26 Thread Sven Barth
Am 26.08.2015 08:36 schrieb Kazantsev Alexey kazantsev.ale...@mail.ru: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:50:50 +0400, Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl wrote: We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.0 on our ftp servers. This bugs is unworthy to be released

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-26 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said: Win32: - MS Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7 (Win95, 98 and ME are not supported in FPC officially any longer). But here is Win95,98,Me explicitly excluded. I think, that at first place it should be also excluded. Yup, and remove

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-26 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 26.08.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Marco van de Voort: In our previous episode, LacaK said: i386, x86_64, PowerPC or Sparc processor Win32: - MS Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7 (Win95, 98 and ME are not supported in FPC officially any longer). But here is Win95,98,Me explicitly excluded. I

[fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-25 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Hello We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.0 on our ftp servers. You can help improve the upcoming 3.0.0 release by downloading and testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_3.0.0

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-25 Thread silvioprog
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl wrote: Hello We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.0 on our ftp servers. You can help improve the upcoming 3.0.0 release by downloading and testing this release. If you want you

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-25 Thread LacaK
News and changes related to this release are described in whatsnew.txt. Free Pascal 3.0.0 is currently available for the following platforms: - Linux-i386 - Linux-x86_64 (amd64) - Linux-powerpc - Linux-sparc - Linux-ARM - Win32-i386 (Win95/98/Me/XP/2000/2003/Vista/7 and WinNT) Here is

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

2015-08-25 Thread Sven Barth
Am 25.08.2015 18:02 schrieb silvioprog silviop...@gmail.com: Wow! This is the best news in this year! \o/\o/\o/ Congratulations! \o/\o/\o/ It's /only/ the release candidate, you know? Also: did you really have to quote the whole mail? (I mean one can definitely argue about the acceptable