[Lazarus] Proposal for changing fpc version on the fly in the IDE

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

patspiper wrote:
> On 22/08/13 19:36, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>

>> I've never seen any suggestion that this breaks backwards 
>> compatibility, and if it does it should probably be raised as a bug- 
>> at least so that it can be documented properly. In any event, as long 
>> as fpc (etc.) knows what version of backend it's using then later 
>> versions should be able to emulate older ones: I don't think anybody'd 
>> be fool enough to try the other way round :-)
> 
> Would you trust using the fpc binary (not ppcxxx) and associated 
> utilities of trunk for your production apps?

I have more than one computer :-)

Frankly though, I'm not sure /what/ I'd trust for production apps. I'd 
be reluctant to use FPC _trunk and cautious about using _fixes, and I 
think I'd have to say the same about Lazarus... which obviously 
complicates things since in general there are always "must have" 
features and fixes only in the bleeding-edge revision.

But that takes us back to the original point: I usually set up Lazarus 
to invoke ppcXXX.x.y.z rather than the fpc wrapper, at which point I'm 
not sure which of the utilities in /usr/local/bin are at all relevant.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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