[Lazarus] Lazarus Examples

[Hess, Philip J]

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From: Brian Prentice [bprentice at webenet.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:12 PM
To: Lazarus mailing list
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus Examples

> Thank you for your replies on this matter.   No one addressed the underlying problem here.  I believe that all the examples should be run prior to a major release and those that do not run should be removed.  This 
> should be a significant part of regression testing.  This was clearly not done on the Intel Mac version and from your replies has never been done for this version.



I agree completely. With a volunteer project, it likely comes down to a question of manpower. Who exactly should test every example on all platforms before each release? That's pretty tedious work. However, I would submit that whoever wrote or contributed the example should do the testing. Vincent does give those of us who have published packages (see CCR page) plenty of warning before a new release to _test_ our stuff against it and file bug reports if anything is broken. Anything that's considered a regression usually holds up the release until it's fixed. The same should hold for the examples shipped with Laz.

Thanks.

-Phil