On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:54:48 +1000 > James Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:41:17PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:52:31PM +0200, A.J. Venter wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > How much compatibility is broken between fpc-1.0.6 and fpc-laz 1.0.7 > > > > > ? > > > > > > > > Why can't Lazarus be run with just the normal FPC compiler anyway ? > > > > Why does it have to have a specially built compiler ? > > > > > > In general, there is no reason, just that always small problems pop up > > > when a large project as Lazarus is made. > > > > > > Delphi incompabilities and recompiling problems (circular reference) > > > that are dectected and fixed after a release have been the usual reasons > > > for requiring snapshots. > > > > > > Though the amount of problems seems to decrease with each new fixes > > > version, and I hope that trend continues > > > > In future will we see Lazurs start to work with the normal FPC compilers > > without the additional need to download and install the a specially > > built compiler for it ? > > This is always the goal. > In fact the last recommended compiler for lazarus is nearly 6 months old. As > soon as the offcial 1.0.8 is there, it will become the recommended compiler. > There are some remaining bugs in the current 1.0.7, which would be nice, if > they could be fixed before releasing 1.0.8: typeinfo for single and double. > If no one is doing that then I will send a patch for it. Please do. I'll apply it. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
