[Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

[Marc Weustink]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Florian Klaempfl wrote:
>>
>> Years of experience with fpc showed that very few people are testing
>> such branches. Even rcs aren't intensively tested, just look at the
>> resource trouble with fpc 2.4.0
>
> Not to get into all that again (you can read the archives), but SubVersion
> doesn't lend itself to easily using branches. So I don't think the problem
> is the lack of developers wanting to test new features in other branches,
> but rather the effort (and time) forced by the repository system used. I
> simply don't have the time to wait 5 minutes for a new branch to be checked
> out, to simply find it totally useless, and then wait another 5 minutes to
> checkout out the previous branch I was using. Not everybody has super fast
> internet or uncapped bandwidth - which such testing with SubVersion would
> require.

I didn't have that experience when I was developing graphics in a 
separate lcl branch. I can't remember how I did it, but it was just one 
simple svn statement and a few secs waiting.

Marc