[fpc-devel] Breaking change in FPC 2.6.1

[Marcos Douglas]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 May 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
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>> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
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>>> 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.
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>>
>> 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.
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>
> Instead of repeating the remark, suggesting a solution would be useful.
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> Criticism is easy. Coming up with solutions obviously much less so.
>
> Michael.

IMHO, I think they want to back how was before, ie., using
TBookmarkStr without 'deprecated'... while the core do not have a
solution, first in trunk.

Marcos Douglas