[Lazarus] Delphi converter improvements

[Flávio Etrusco]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
>> I think Lazarus could benefit from such a workflow too. There seems to be
>> more and more experimental feature that go untested because they are
>> "experimental". Getting more developers to simply switch to another branch
>> at allow testing of new features before they go to Trunk would be very
>> beneficial. Beneficial to the Laz developers, end-users and definitely to
>> the new feature maintainer - get people to test and comment on a new
>> feature before it makes it into Trunk.
>
> 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
>

Florian, I for one - which had tried some branches only a few times -
think that the main culprits for this is lack of
information/advertisement of these/the relevant branches, and, not to
copycat Graeme, the slowness of switching branches in svn. Yes, I know
the switch command, as I used svn for quite time, coming from years of
cvsnt use (and some frustration). Actually I've been using/trying svn
regularly its early bdb days, as I had high hopes for it, but I always
come back frustrated.
I'm not 100% sure it would/can work, but it sounds good in principle...

-Flávo