On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 7:16 AM Martin Frb via lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> On 24/11/2022 12:53, Aruna Hewapathirane via lazarus wrote: > > > I found one repository on Gitlab: > https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/tree/main/examples > > And another repository on Sourceforge: > https://sourceforge.net/p/lazarus/laz.git/ci/main/tree/examples/ > > > The correct repo is the one on Gitlab. The sourceforge is a mirror (run by > the team). There also is a mirror on Github. > Ah... thank you for the clarification. So any fix'es I have to push to Gitlab then? > > > And now comes the interesting part, neither repository has a file called > "testall" which was very confusing to me. > So I checked and then double-checked under the examples folder in both > repositories and found nothing again. > > Does anyone know why "testall" is not there in both Lazarus repositories? > And where is the repo that contains > "testall" please? And which repo do I use when I want to submit a patch or > fix? > > > The "testall" exists in the "fixes_2_2" branch. (Which is used for current > releases). > Thank you again I just checked out fixes_2_2 branch and yes "testall" and other friends are all there :_) > > In the "main" branch the example folder was re-ordered. During this > process the "testall" appears to have been removed. Not sure of the > reasons... > Oh-kay that explains why I was unable to find it and am sure the reasons were all good and valid :-) Maybe oversight, maybe because it did not work. If the latter, then likely > a working version can be re-added. > Umm... well "testall" works on Windows I had zero issues but needs a few fixes when running under Linux. I have manged to get it to work on my Debian system now. > I did sent a query to the person behind the change, hopefully he can shine > some light on this. > Thank you for following up and I just want to say the 'documentation' is of a quality I have never seen anywhere before. Extremely thorough and to the point so if someone removed "testall" I am sure there were valid reasons. It just 'spooked' me when I simply could not find it in the repo. I never thought to look in other branches.... Much obliged for clearing this up Martin. Thank you! Aruna > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > lazarus mailing list > lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org > https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus >
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