[fpc-devel] Breaking change in FPC 2.6.1

Marcos Douglas md at delfire.net
Fri Apr 27 14:26:48 CEST 2012


On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 April 2012 06:58, Martin Schreiber <mse00000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I strongly recommend to revert the type of TDataSet.Bookmark to TBookmarkStr
>> in FPC 2.6.1 (fixes_2_6) and to change type of TDataSet.Bookmark  = tbytes in
>> FPC 2.7.1 only.
>
>
> Macro wants feedback, well here is some... I fully agree with Martin.
> Please revert such code breaking changes in the STABLE 2.6.x release!
>
> When I (and many other FPC users) update our 2.6.x to the latest
> "fixes" commits, we don't expect breakage! Breakages belong in TRUNK
> only.

+1
IMHO even new things and improvements would be welcome, but not break
the old things.

Marcos Douglas



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