[Lazarus] How to find out which version of Lazarus was used to build last?

[Luca Olivetti]

El 23/1/21 a les 14:28, Juha Manninen via lazarus ha escrit:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 1:18 AM Bo Berglund via lazarus 
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org <mailto:lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     I don't want to modify too much so I would like to use the same
>     version now...
> 
> 
> How many and what kind of modifications are needed?

I know because I had to do it recently and the answer is: a lot.
And I wasn't even using a really old version (I last modified the 
program 3 years ago).
I another case, with an older program (last touched in November 2015) 
where I just needed to change one line, the diff is around 11000 lines 
(though many of those are just useless changes in the lfm files).


> All libraries try to stay backwards compatible. As a general rule new 
> versions are better than old versions.

And introduce new bugs, change the defaults so your program no longer 
works as it should, etc.
I've seen it all.

> I recommend you jump to the latest versions of FPC and Lazarus.

I try to do that, but trust me, it isn't easy.
It's not the first time I had to go back to a previous version due to 
bugs (or simply different behavior) in the compiler, lcl, other 
libraries, etc.

Bye
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Luca Olivetti
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