[Lazarus] function StabBackTraceStr(addr:Pointer):shortstring; - problem with subsequent back traces

2009-04-15 Thread Bogusław Brandys
There is a problem with this function. To avoid recursion there is a hack there to point BackTraceStrFunc to system implementation (which only shows addresses in hex).Long back trace which mostly ends with incorrect frame address as I suppose (OpenStabs is returning false for nil address) -

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Alexander Klenin kle...@gmail.com wrote: As a general issue, IMO the Discussion section of git-tag manpage summarizes the case for correct tag usage very nicely ;-) And more importantly - in Git, a 'tag' is very different to a 'branch'. ;-) Regards, -

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, so what is written about how to use tags with doesn't apply to svn, because with SVN a tag is not very different at all to a branch. ;-) :-) I've only been using Git for 2-3 months (1.5 months actively).

Re: [Lazarus] read text file in lazarus

2009-04-15 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na svaa ha escrit: My complain was that when Dians asked about how to read a text file, the right answer should had been showing both ways. Note that both require exclusive access to the file. If you want shared access (e.g. to read a file that some other process has open for writing,

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op dinsdag 14-04-2009 om 12:35 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Hans-Peter Diettrich: Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: Yes, but beware the some of them got merges from trunk afterwards. For instance, lazarus_0_9_26_2 is based on 18716, and r18269 got merged resulting in r18898. So you cannot

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
2009/4/15 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl wrote: ps: Releasing a fpc release costs more then 4 months! FOUR MONTHS! And still we had to cancel the release on the day of the planned release. How did this thread

Re: [Lazarus] function StabBackTraceStr(addr:Pointer):shortstring; - problem with subsequent back traces

2009-04-15 Thread Sergei Gorelkin
Bogusław Brandys пишет: There is a problem with this function. To avoid recursion there is a hack there to point BackTraceStrFunc to system implementation (which only shows addresses in hex).Long back trace which mostly ends with incorrect frame address as I suppose (OpenStabs is returning

Re: [Lazarus] Modified .po files after each build

2009-04-15 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Alexander Klenin kle...@gmail.com: 2009/4/15 Mattias Gärtner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de: Zitat von Alexander Klenin kle...@gmail.com: Additionally, many makefiles also get modified. Can you both provide more details to reproduce? Hm, I did a clean rebuild if recent SVN and

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op dinsdag 14-04-2009 om 16:06 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Graeme Geldenhuys: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: And what if someone realizes that one patch is missing? Well, is that not what release canditate or stable branches are for?

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl wrote: ps: Releasing a fpc release costs more then 4 months! FOUR MONTHS! And still we had to cancel the release on the day of the planned release. How did this thread become all about FPC releases??? This is the Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, so what is written about how to use tags with doesn't apply to svn, because with SVN a tag is not very different at all to a branch. ;-) :-) I've only been using Git for 2-3

[Lazarus] Repository commit statistics. :-)

2009-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I've been playing with new Git commands again and found this cool little one. It outputs the number of commits done by all users in the Lazarus repository. I guess it's kinda pointless since the numbers do not fully reflect all contributors. Patches submitted to Mantis is applied by other

[Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Spaced-Out.aspx This is why we don't hire VB programmers!!! :-) Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op woensdag 15-04-2009 om 11:25 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Graeme Geldenhuys: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl wrote: ps: Releasing a fpc release costs more then 4 months! FOUR MONTHS! And still we had to cancel the release on the day of the planned

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 03:25:10PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Vincent Snijders vsnijd...@vodafonevast.nl wrote: I am abusing the tool, because it is a tool after all, not a law. Sorry to confuse you with it, but I never realized you would get into

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
2009/4/15, Flávio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com: Let's play it straight: there's no _need_ for moving tags. Yes, it can be convenient, but you'll shooting yourself in the foot no matter if it's how private you make it. I think I have to shoot myself in the foot before I give up this

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: It's one of the very first points in the SVN book (iirc differences to CVS), that branches and tags are the same. and then you read between the lines design flaw! ;-) Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2009/4/15 Flávio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com: As I said previously (and was completely ignored ;-), with SVN one can rely on repository revisions. And if people don't like that, they can use a series of pre tags. And probably a pre branch. Brilliant idea. Create a pre-0.9.26 branch (or

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl wrote: The whole git-stuff is off-topic. Most people here don't care. I've setup a Git mirror of Lazarus SubVersion repository. It's got everything to do with Lazarus development. And yes most people don't care yet, because the

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Vincent Snijders schrieb: 2009/4/15, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: 2009/4/15 Flávio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com: As I said previously (and was completely ignored ;-), with SVN one can rely on repository revisions. And if people don't like that, they can use a series

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
2009/4/15, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: 2009/4/15 Flávio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com: As I said previously (and was completely ignored ;-), with SVN one can rely on repository revisions. And if people don't like that, they can use a series of pre tags. And

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 00:02, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Very difficult. If a release is created from a branch, nobody can ensure that all release builders built the release candidate from exactly the same revision, if they don't, things might be broken when the final

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: start the release process. 2-4 months later if anything is broken, merge and patch that branch at will. Test again Did you ever working on testing a lazarus or fpc release? Do you mean... have I tested a release

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Alexander Klenin schrieb: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 00:02, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Very difficult. If a release is created from a branch, nobody can ensure that all release builders built the release candidate from exactly the same revision, if they don't, things might

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: start the release process. 2-4 months later if anything is broken, merge and patch that branch at will. Test again Did you ever working on testing a lazarus or fpc release? Do you

Re: [Lazarus] revision numbers of each SVN tag?

2009-04-15 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 00:02, Florian Klaempfl flor...@freepascal.org wrote: Very difficult. If a release is created from a branch, nobody can ensure that all release builders built the release candidate from exactly the same revision, if they don't, things might be broken when the final

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-15 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
And here is the best comment about it: Capt. Kirk: As a customer your choices are: 1. Hire an experienced competent developer who understands the library functions, knows how to write properly structured code with appropriate variable scope and data types, or 2. Hire someone who will produce

Re: [Lazarus] Packages / Visual Form Inheritance / Components Connection

2009-04-15 Thread Osvaldo Filho
What No. This is not my problems! I can use my models (forms ancestors / VFI); My problems is with IDE Menu: No IDE:menu:new:inherited component options for my forms on my package. And i don't see how can i put forms/datamodules from my package in autoCreate statement of my project! Em Ter,

Re: [Lazarus] Modified .po files after each build

2009-04-15 Thread Jesus Reyes
--- El mar 14-abr-09, Vincent Snijders vsnijd...@vodafonevast.nl escribió: De:: Vincent Snijders vsnijd...@vodafonevast.nl Asunto: Re: [Lazarus] Modified .po files after each build A: General mailing list lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org Fecha: martes, 14 abril, 2009, 2:44 pm Graeme

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-15 Thread Giuliano Colla
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ha scritto: And here is the best comment about it: Capt. Kirk: As a customer your choices are: 1. Hire an experienced competent developer who understands the library functions, knows how to write properly structured code with appropriate variable scope and

[Lazarus] OT [Re: Why we chose Object Pascal instead]

2009-04-15 Thread Martin Friebe
Giuliano Colla wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ha scritto: And here is the best comment about it: Capt. Kirk: As a customer your choices are: 1. Hire an experienced competent developer who understands the library functions, knows how to write properly structured code with

[Lazarus] Modified .po files after each build

2009-04-15 Thread Héctor Fiandor Rosario
Dear sirs: where can I found something about the po files? thanks very much Ing. Héctor F. Fiandor hfian...@infomed.sld.cu --- Red Telematica de Salud - Cuba CNICM - Infomed ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] OT [Re: Why we chose Object Pascal instead]

2009-04-15 Thread Giuliano Colla
Martin Friebe ha scritto: Giuliano Colla wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ha scritto: And here is the best comment about it: Capt. Kirk: As a customer your choices are: 1. Hire an experienced competent developer who understands the library functions, knows how to write properly

[Lazarus] windowmanager interaction of lcl

2009-04-15 Thread Marc Santhoff
Hi, I'm still having trouble using GTK or GTK2 when running Window Maker (http://www.windowmaker.info/). Every time virtual desktops are switched lazarus itself and any application built with it are minimized. Is this a known bug? Where in the LCL is the handling of window manager events?

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-15 Thread Bee
And here is the best comment about it: The funniest comment about it: VB is the garbage collector: you type in your code and... there you have it, the garbage! -- -Bee- has Bee.ography at: http://beeography.wordpress.com ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-15 Thread Bee
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Spaced-Out.aspx This is why we don't hire VB programmers!!!  :-) Well, to me it seems the problem is with the programmer. I have seen a Java and also a Delphi programmer write similar code as the article mentioned. Though such kind of programmer is more common in