[fpc-devel] multiply resource files bug (commit 7515)

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Wed May 30 22:08:46 CEST 2007



On Wed, 30 May 2007, Vincent Snijders wrote:

> Yury Sidorov schreef:
> > From: "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org>
> > > On Wed, 30 May 2007, Yury Sidorov wrote:
> > > > From: "Павел Ишенин" <webpirat at mail.ru>
> > > > > Hello, FPC developers' list
> > > > >
> > > > > I've noticed today that Yury resolved old and extremly bad for > > 
> > > lazarus bug
> > > > > with multiply resource files. And now it is possible to use more > 
> > > > than one
> > > > > res in application.
> > > > >
> > > > > I dont know magic words, but maybe it is possible to merge this > 
> > > > fix into
> > > > > future 2.2 version? This help us to solve some problems in > > 
> > > lazarus (xp
> > > > > manifest injection, using res instead of lrs).
> > > >
> > > > I would like to see this fix in 2.2 as well.
> > > > What other core developers think about it?
> > >
> > > The answer is the same as for Graeme's request to merge some fpcunit
> > > fixes:
> > > Normally not, and since it's a rather big change which can have some as
> > > yet unknown side-effects, I'd say this one is even less likely.
> > 
> > I dont surprised with the answer :) The bugfix is really changes a lot of
> > code.
> > Let's wait for 2.2.2.
> > 
> 
> Too bad. IMHO, it is not good for fpc development, that people are going to be
> dependent on 2.3.1 fixes even before 2.2.0 has been released.

You can help by 
- making sure that 2.2.0 is well tested and bugs identified.
- Getting 2.2.2 out of the door quicklier.

Releasing 2.2 is taking forever. It's almost if not completely the slowest 
release ever :/

Michael.


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