[Lazarus] We are planning the next release: Lazarus 2.0.10

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 18:12:57 +0200, Martin Frb via lazarus
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

>On 04/07/2020 17:21, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:14:40 +0200, Martin Frb via lazarus
>> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The Lazarus team has scheduled
>>>
>>>        Lazarus 2.0.10
>>>        for July 2020 (estimated 4th to 11th)
>>>
>>>        This release will be built with_*FPC 3.2.0*_.
>>>
>> This concerns Lazarus / FPC on Raspberry Pi4
>>
>> I have just retrieved the 2.0.10 sources via SVN and built Lazarus
>> using the FPC 3.2.0 installation I had already done.
>>
>> It worked fine but when I started Lazarus it showed the dialog where
>> the location of things like fpc sources and compiler etc are
>> displayed.
>> It turns out that for these items it selected fpc 3.0.4 still.
>>
>> So my Lazarus is built using fpc 3.2.0 but when I install new packages
>> they will probably be built using fpc 3.0.4.
>> Does this cause some confusion?
>>
>> Should Lazarus 2.0.10 be repointed towards fpc 3.2.0 before installing
>> new packages (via OPM)?
>>
>>
>You need to differ between upgrade and new install.
>
>Upgrades do not touch (during install) the existing config.
>
>If the old fpc install is kept, then the config still points to it. => 
>And installing packages will rebuild the entire IDE with this compiler.
>(As will your projects be build with the old compiler)
>
>If you updated fpc too, the old fpc would no longer be there, forcing 
>the IDE to update the config on startup.
>(This is an issue on windows, because the installer does not delete the 
>old fpc.... afaik)

1) I do not "upgrade" an installation, I always retrieve sources from
SVN and build them using the make commands. Thus I have multiple
installations of Lazarus available on my system and all are now
pointing to fpc 3.0.4.

2) As stated in the release message Lazarus 2.0.10 is built using fpc
3.2.0, thus I ponted the make script to that version so Lazarus built
just fine from the sources. Every Lazarus version uses its own pcp
directory.

3) I am not talking about Windows here, I stated that it concerns
Raspberry Pi4, i.e. we are talking Raspbian Buster Linux as the
operating system.

Question:
Is there a menu command inside Lazarus to bring up the initial dialog
where the location of the compiler, sources etc is defined?
Because I did not realize that when I started Lazarus 2.0.10 for the
first time I should have made sure fpc was set to use 3.2.0...


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden