AW: Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-04 Thread Helmut Hartl
Von: Jonas Maebe jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be Gesendet: So 03.05.2009 15:01 An: FPC developers' list fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org; Betreff: Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup On 03 May 2009, at 14:58, Alexander Klenin wrote: BTW, is generics good enough to be used in e.g. math.pp? Afaik

Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-03 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 03 May 2009, at 04:28, Alexander Klenin wrote: While fixing http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13619, Jonas did not apply neither code cleanup not comment fix parts of it. It's mainly because I saw the patch only after I already looked up the Delphi declaration and fixed the code

Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: I'm not sure. But if they should be done, now would probably be a good time given that merging from trunk to fixes is already fairly hard anyway (at least for the compiler), and I don't really see a 2.2.6 happening (although I'm sure other

Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-03 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 03 May 2009, at 13:08, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sun, 3 May 2009, Jonas Maebe wrote: I don't see what the problem is with stabilising/releasing 2.4 as it is. If generics and Delphi 2009-style ansistrings are not going to get finished any time soon, why not release 2.4 without them

Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: (I don't think the situation with 2.2.6 changed from the one with 2.2.4. I don't see a 2.4 release within the year happening. I don't see what the problem is with stabilising/releasing 2.4 as it is. If generics and Delphi 2009-style

Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-03 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 03 May 2009, at 12:44, Marco van de Voort wrote: Well, Lazarus is currently amassing large handcoded UTF8 ansistring codebases, something I don't think that is healthy. If unicode is postponed to the next major release, it will be long, very long before this is cleaned up. Waiting

Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 3 May 2009, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 03 May 2009, at 11:30, Marco van de Voort wrote: (I don't think the situation with 2.2.6 changed from the one with 2.2.4. I don't see a 2.4 release within the year happening. I don't see what the problem is with stabilising/releasing 2.4 as it

Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: Well, Lazarus is currently amassing large handcoded UTF8 ansistring codebases, something I don't think that is healthy. If unicode is postponed to the next major release, it will be long, very long before this is cleaned Waiting with

Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-03 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 03 May 2009, at 13:54, Marco van de Voort wrote: (I thought btw, generics in 2.2.4 had improved to being more or less usable?) A number of important bugs were indeed fixed. But as far as I know, several more are left. Jonas ___ fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-03 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 23:55, Jonas Maebe jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be wrote: On 03 May 2009, at 13:54, Marco van de Voort wrote: (I thought btw, generics in 2.2.4 had improved to being more or less usable?) A number of important bugs were indeed fixed. But as far as I know, several more are

Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-03 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Jonas Maebe schrieb: On 03 May 2009, at 13:54, Marco van de Voort wrote: (I thought btw, generics in 2.2.4 had improved to being more or less usable?) A number of important bugs were indeed fixed. But as far as I know, several more are left. I see no problem if a certain feature has

Re: [fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-03 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 03 May 2009, at 14:58, Alexander Klenin wrote: BTW, is generics good enough to be used in e.g. math.pp? Afaik, generics have only been implemented for classes until now. Plain generic functions are not (yet) supported. Jonas ___ fpc-devel

[fpc-devel] On code cleanup

2009-05-02 Thread Alexander Klenin
While fixing http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13619, Jonas did not apply neither code cleanup not comment fix parts of it. Are such changes not wanted? I did not made a separate patch for them -- should I? I thought they are trivial and obvious. On a more generic note -- will massive code