[Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

[Florian Klaempfl]

Marc Weustink schrieb:
> 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.
> 

florian at ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ ifconfig eth0 | grep "RX bytes"
          RX bytes:57135108 (57.1 MB)  TX bytes:1798253 (1.7 MB)
florian at ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ svn switch
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/fixes_2_4 > log
florian at ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ ifconfig eth0 | grep "RX bytes"
          RX bytes:57681323 (57.6 MB)  TX bytes:1814129 (1.8 MB)