[Lazarus] Testing Delphi converter

[Daniel Gaspary]

And this [1] issue, was it
reapplied/corrected?

Sorry, I can't test at the moment.


[1] http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24473

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Juha Manninen
<juha.manninen62 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wrote in http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.2.0_release_notes:
>   Delphi converter is more robust and does not abort any more for
> parsing or other errors.
> I am not sure if that is true yet but it is a goal.
>
> Please test the converter are report errors where the conversion gets
> interrupted by itself, and also other errors in the current primitive
> conversions.
> "Primitive  conversion" means it only replaces, adds and removes
> units, types, properties and functions, and calculates some offsets,
> but does not do any deeper code analysis.
> The existing conversions should work quite well though.
>
> I fixed this :
>   http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24852
> The GUI for missing units was partly broken.
>
> Even when the conversion succeeds without errors, it does not mean the
> program would run or work, but that is a very different issue.
> Fully automatic conversion, especially for cross-platform, will be
> quite impossible also in future.
>
> Regards,
> Juha
>
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