Re: [Lazarus] Update Lazarus from svn, what happens on rebuild?

2019-12-18 Thread John Landmesser via lazarus
All packages become part of the lazarus executable. Thats different from Delphi for example where packages are dynamical loaded. This one builds the IDE with all extra packages you installed yourself: make clean lazbuild useride starter i Hope, thats a useful and correct answer! Am

[Lazarus] Update Lazarus from svn, what happens on rebuild?

2019-12-18 Thread Bo Berglund via lazarus
Say I have retrieved Lazarus sources from SVN and worked with it some time. I usually install certain extra packages suiting my development projects etc. Now I update from SVN and rebuild Lazarus, is there some way to make sure that what non-standard packages I had installed earlier gets installed

Re: [Lazarus] Duplicate items in xml doc files

2019-12-18 Thread Werner Pamler via lazarus
Am 18.12.2019 um 13:11 schrieb Marco van de Voort via lazarus: A lemma in the help that is just "polybezier", and not TCanvas.polybezier. I assume it is a global procedure The lemma has Source position: winapih.inc line 211 I looked at TCanvas.PolyBezier (the help text is in graphics.xml).

Re: [Lazarus] Duplicate items in xml doc files

2019-12-18 Thread Mattias Gaertner via lazarus
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:21:33 +0100 Werner Pamler via lazarus wrote: >[...] > Another issue with the FPDocEditor is that it frequently writes back > to the xml file although nothing has been changed. Sound like a regression. It contains code to check if something has changed. Mattias --

Re: [Lazarus] Duplicate items in xml doc files

2019-12-18 Thread Werner Pamler via lazarus
Am 18.12.2019 um 16:36 schrieb Werner Pamler via lazarus: Am 18.12.2019 um 16:29 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus: That's why the docs of fpc have the checkxml tool, which is used to quickly check the XML structure after editing, before committing or building. Thanks - I did not know

Re: [Lazarus] Duplicate items in xml doc files

2019-12-18 Thread Werner Pamler via lazarus
Am 18.12.2019 um 16:29 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus: That's why the docs of fpc have the checkxml tool, which is used to quickly check the XML structure after editing, before committing or building. Thanks - I did not know that. -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Duplicate items in xml doc files

2019-12-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Werner Pamler via lazarus wrote: For FPC, I only edit manually. I don't see why this would be error prone ? Typos! Once I tried to build the html help files myself and it failed because somebody had forgotten the slash in the end tag of some element. I can imagine

Re: [Lazarus] Duplicate items in xml doc files

2019-12-18 Thread Werner Pamler via lazarus
Disregarding LazFPDoc for the moment: I do like the FPDoc Editor because once I understood its principle I could simply edit existing and create new help items. And moving the mouse over the corresponding keywords in the text gave an immediate feedback. But now I am quite confused because it

Re: [Lazarus] Duplicate items in xml doc files

2019-12-18 Thread Marco van de Voort via lazarus
Op 2019-12-18 om 12:55 schreef Werner Pamler via lazarus:  You are sure you really have TCanvas.polybezier in the editor, and not the polybezier global? (at least I see a polybezier global in the last CHM snapshot) No, I am not sure. I even don't know what "polybezier global" is... A

Re: [Lazarus] Duplicate items in xml doc files

2019-12-18 Thread Werner Pamler via lazarus
Am 18.12.2019 um 11:05 schrieb Marco van de Voort via lazarus: Op 2019-12-17 om 22:52 schreef Werner Pamler via lazarus: Fixing a docs-related issue today (https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=36452), I noticed that the entry for TCanvas.PolyBezier almost does not have any elements when