Thanks!
> On Oct 21, 2024, at 1:35 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
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> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, ppadilcdx--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
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>> Apropos the new users discussion, i think the state of the docs is really
>> important, new users can be discouraged by lack of documentati
On 21/10/2024 05:18, Gordon Findlay via fpc-pascal wrote:
- distros sometimes have quite old versions in their repos. For example my
opensuse machine right now is offering Lazarus 2.2.
openSUSE (Tumbleweed) is on 3.6,
as are most/all of the other rolling distributions
https://repology.org/pro
On 10/21/2024 1:35 AM, Christo Crause via fpc-pascal wrote:
The official FPC documentation can be accessed from here:
https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html
These are obviously reference documentation, not getting started or
how-to tutorials.
The documentation is hosted here:
https://gitlab.com/
On 10/21/24 3:17 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
schrieb am Mo., 21. Okt. 2024, 08:32:
2) record types (as opposed to class), which can live on the stack
and have a pass-by-value semantics. FPC trunk supports advanced
records, so you get C++-sty
Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal schrieb am
Mo., 21. Okt. 2024, 08:32:
> 2) record types (as opposed to class), which can live on the stack and
> have a pass-by-value semantics. FPC trunk supports advanced records, so you
> get C++-style copy constructors.
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Advanced records are already supported
On 10/21/24 7:18 AM, Gordon Findlay via fpc-pascal wrote:
- distros sometimes have quite old versions in their repos. For
example my opensuse machine right now is offering Lazarus 2.2.
For this, we need help from FPC and Lazarus users, who actually use the
given distro. Someone needs to volu
The official FPC documentation can be accessed from here:
https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html
These are obviously reference documentation, not getting started or how-to
tutorials.
The documentation is hosted here:
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/documentation
Issues reporting mistakes/omissi
On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, ppadilcdx--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
Apropos the new users discussion, i think the state of the docs is really
important, new users can be discouraged by lack of documentation or up-to-date
docs.
I just recently retired so not a new young user, but relatily new to fpc. So
I've been programming a long time but when I first took up with Lazarus and
FPC there were three issues:
- out of date documentation.
- for many topics (for example in the LCL) there is formal documentation
but not tutorial material.
- distros sometimes have quite old versions in their repos. F
