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<div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">2010/12/29 Juha Manninen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juha.manninen62@gmail.com">juha.manninen62@gmail.com</a>></span><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">Peter E Williams kirjoitti tiistai 28 joulukuu 2010 21:34:03:</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> > I think you should write a bug report</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> </font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> Okay... please see my earlier message about my not being able to install</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> the deb files for the latest snapshot.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> </font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> I want someone to tell me the linux command to install all deb files in the</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> current folder. I am still a linux newbie with deb files as I use the</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> Software Manager. This installs Lazarus 0.9.28,2 not the latest beta</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> version.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> </font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> I am not a SVN user.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"></p></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"> </font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">Then you must become one...</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"></p></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br>Agreed.<br> <br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">I mean, if you want to get involved in the project so much that you make bug reports with suggested code changes, then using the revision control system is the only way to go. </font></p>
</div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br>I have not experience with SVN as I am a lone developer.<br> </font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">The bugs should be tested against the latest versions anyway and updating from the SVN server is the easiest and fastest way.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> <font size="4"><a href="http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus" target="_blank">http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus</a></font></p></div></blockquote><div>
<font size="4"> </font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;">
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">Basically just:</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">$<span> svn co <a href="http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk" target="_blank">http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk</a> lazarus</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4"><span>$ cd lazarus</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4"><span>$ make all</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4"><span>$ ./lazarus &</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"></p></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"> </font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> > use the normal diff format for your patch.</font></p></div></blockquote>
<div><font size="4"><br>This is the step I don't understand. <br><br>How do I use the normal diff format for my patch? <br><br>I know nothing of how the diff command works. We all learn somewhere. :-)<br></font></div>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> </font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> Please give details. I have never done this before! :)</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">Explained here:</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> <font size="4"><a href="http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Creating_A_Patch" target="_blank">http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Creating_A_Patch</a></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"></p></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br></font><p><font size="4"><b>Instructions For Linux/BSD etc:</b></font>
</p><p><font size="4">We'll assume that you have your SVN checkout of Lazarus in $HOME/lazarus
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<ol><li><font size="4"> Open your favorite Terminal program
</font></li><li><font size="4"> cd $HOME {press enter}
</font></li><li><font size="4"> cd lazarus {press enter}
</font></li><li><font size="4"> svn diff > mypatch.diff {press enter}
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">Basically:</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">$ svn diff > mypatch.patch</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> >It makes things easier for everybody.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> </font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">> I am all in favour of making things easier for everybody :-)))</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">:-)</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><font size="4">Juha</font></p>
</div><font size="4"><br></font></blockquote><div><font size="4">PEW :)<br> </font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><font size="4">--<br>
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