[fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

[Sven Barth]

Am 11.02.2013 11:47, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
>>> Then we would still have the problem of the outdated tools. Maybe we could write Pascal based substitutes for them that only need to handle the cases of compiler/rtl compilation...
>> The only problem I'm aware of is cp copying the read-only attribute under
>> Windows and refusing to overwrite such files, resulting in problems when
>> installing examples from the packages dir from a non-exported svn checkout
>> over a previous install.  That problem does not affect either the compiler
>> or the RTL.
> That, and its consequence should not be underestimated, it requires an
> export that can be terribly slow on a work machine with anti-virus. Luckily
> if you don't build real releases, you can avoid it by equating it to echo
> (as described in the buildfaq)
Is that still a problem now that packages are fpmake based? Also in 
current versions of the SVN client the .svn files are only stored in the 
root directory of the working copy... (yes, that would still mean a 
problem for older client versions, but I hope that it will get less :) )

Regards,
Sven