[fpc-devel] Wish for merging back fixes

Peter Vreman peter at freepascal.org
Sun Apr 1 23:32:33 CEST 2007


At 08:55 1-4-2007, you wrote:
>Hi,
>Now that it is clear that FPC 2.2 can not be used with MSEide+MSEgui because
>of Mantis 8481 ("By copying an record with OLE string fields, the memory
>location of the *source* string is changed."), I would be happy if the fixes
>for Mantis 8103, 8245, 8386 and 8388 could be merged back to fixes_2_0 in
>order that we don't need to patch it anymore.

Sorry, but that is not a good argument for asking merges. Depending 
on compiler/rtl internals is a bad design. Merging those revisions 
will not help in the long future either if everyone is using 2.2.x+ 
except MSE because it depends on 2.0.x internals.


Peter




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