On Fri, 10 Apr 2020, fredvs via fpc-pascal wrote:
I'm surprised you want to distribute your own version of the compiler.
Huh, https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32367
No answer, no no good will, hate, dont want to understand, ... --->
conclusion:
https://github.com/fredvs/freepascal
Maybe a ping to reopen the discussion here could solve your problem as well?
I agree with Florian's comment:
"I think the proposal not to mess with the filename if it is preceeded by : sounds
reasonable to me."
So I think we can simply allow the version number to be specified.
It's a simple enough change, doesn't harm existing code.
We don't need to use this mechanism ourselves (I've never needed it),
but I don't see why we should forbid the user to do so, specially since it
doesn't harm existing code at all.
Even gcc allows it.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3840218/how-to-specify-the-library-version-to-use-at-link-time
clearly the need exists.
To fork a compiler over such a minor issue seems a bit overkill to me.
Michael.
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