[Lazarus] How would you organize build directories for different versions?

[Marcos Douglas]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Mattias Gaertner
<nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:49:31 +0200
> Bart <bartjunk64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >[...]
> > To make clear what I want:
> > In all projects I have available a Debug and Release mode, these modes
> > are the same for all projects I make/open.
> > The options I set in these modes do not force installed packages to be
> > re-build with my options (-gl -gh etc).
> >
> > Is such a thing even possible (and is fo, how)?
>
> You could create a project template with the two build modes.
> This is somewhat static. That means when you want to change the -gl
> into -ghl then you have to change all projects.
>
> To get it more dynamic you can store the options in a package:
> Create a package, let's say bartssettings.lpk. Define
> two build macros bartssettings_options and bartssettings_modes. Add
> two values to bartssettings_modes: release and debug.
> Add in conditionals:
> if bartssettings_modes='release' then
>  bartssettings_options:='-O3'
> else
>  bartssettings_options:='-gh -gl';
>
> Then in the usage / custom options set $(bartssettings_options).
> Every project that uses this package can now choose the build
> macro bartssettings_modes to get the options.

Very, very good!
What is the forecast to be operational in fixes_2_4, please?

Marcos Douglas