[Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Feb 28 00:09:02 CET 2012


On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:00:14AM +0100, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Martin Schreiber schrieb:
> 
> > Thanks. The problem with some of the recent "Delphi compatibility" changes is 
> > that it breaks Delphi 7 compatibility.
> 
> +1 :-(
> 
> IMO at least a stable D7 compatible version/branch is required, which 
> may be extended to the last Delphi AnsiString version (D2007?). This 
> branch doesn't deserve any further features or interface changes of the 
> newer Unicode versions.

Afaik all serious merge requests to the 2.4 branch were honoured:-)
 
> > A side mark: I don't think using the old ansistring as combined binary and 
> > character buffer is such a bad thing.
> 
> +1
> 
> Following the many complaints in the Embarcadero groups, much code still 
> relies on the use of AnsiString even for binary data. Another argument 
> for a *really* D7 compatible Lazarus version.

Like with Delphi, the problem for FPC is the same. Who will foot the bill
for such sentiments.




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