On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> wrote: > In our previous episode, Marcos Douglas said: >> > 1) manually delete the .ppu's in packages that have this problem ( I ran >> > del >> > /s *.ppu ?and *.o in packages/) >> > >> > 2) delete all old fpmake.exe ?(del /s fpmake.exe in packages/) >> >> Ok, thanks, worked! >> But why this? > > In some packages in 2.5.1, fpmake is being used on an experimental basis, to > root out problems by use in practice. > >> In /branches/fixes_2_4 do not happens this error. > > These experimental changes were of course not merged back to the stable > branch 2.4.0 > > At this moment it is not decided yet if these will go in 2.6.0 > >> BTW, updates for fixes_2_4 was stopped? > > 2.4.x receives some updates from time to time. Mostly fixes in packages/ > > This is mostly done to have a fallback if something goes wrong with the > start of the 2.6.x release series that is being planned for the fall. > > If that goes reasonably well, there probably will be no more 2.4.x releases. > > Merging is getting harder and harder in 2.4.x, so mostly only packages that > are wholly merged can be merged.
OK, thanks for the explanation. Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
