[fpc-devel] Breaking change in FPC 2.6.1

Marcos Douglas md at delfire.net
Tue May 1 17:42:22 CEST 2012


On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Martin Schreiber <mse00000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 May 2012 17:08:55 Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 May 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>> > Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
>> >> Well, then they'll have to live with the warning.
>> >>
>> >> And this is the point of having the warning in the first place. Make
>> >> people aware of a coming change.
>> >
>> > As already mentioned in this thread, a mere hint about "may change
>> > somehow, in the next version" is of no real use. IMO "deprecated" means
>> > to the user that he should change his code *now*, in anticipation of the
>> > coming change. This obviously is not the case with the breaking change of
>> > the bookmark type, where *no* workaround exists in the current release.
>>
>> Instead of repeating the remark, suggesting a solution would be useful.
>>
>> Criticism is easy. Coming up with solutions obviously much less so.
>>
> As written before, in MSEgui I'll define a "bookmarkty" type, so MSEgui users
> have "bookmarkty" in order to avoid the warning. FPC and Lazarus probably
> can't do the same because of Delphi compatibility. Suggestion:
> remove "deprecated" from TBookmarkStr in fixes_2_6.

+1

Marcos Douglas



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