[Lazarus] Congrats on the new project options screen

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Wed Aug 7 12:24:47 CEST 2013


> Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> hat am 7. August 2013 um 12:09
> geschrieben:
>
>
> Am 07.08.2013 12:05, schrieb Juha Manninen:
> > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Considering that the current help output of FPC is subject to human error
> >> =>
> >> no.
> > What does that mean?
> > Any human activity is subject to human error.
> Yes, but the help output is especially evolved with human activity (e.g.
> if one adds a new target one needs to remember to add the new target to
> the help output as well) and considering that the help output is rather
> easily forgotten it's in my opinion rather unlikely that the help output
> is kept more precise/up to date than it is currently.

At least the outdated state is consistent. Both the IDE and fpc -h will show the
same bug.
And as far as I know the help is updated before any fpc release, so it should be
accurate for the fpc releases.

> Though as usual patches to improve the situation are welcome ;)


Mattias




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