[fpc-devel] https support; call for testers

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 2 May 2014, Tomas Hajny wrote:

> On Fri, May 2, 2014 08:47, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 May 2014, Tomas Hajny wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> I had thought about this. In general, I try to take care of this
>>>> concern,
>>>> since it is my concern as well.
>>>
>>> What do you mean that you try to take care? Will you try to re-align
>>> the two and e.g. send the latest improvements to Lukas Gebauer? I'm
>>> ready to test proper working of my OS/2 support related changes added
>>> earlier to Synapse once they get merged to the FPC tree. ;-)
>>
>> I merged the synapse version to the FPC tree; that took some work.
>> The FPC tree differs meanwhile too much, it would break existing
>> code if we just copied over the file.
>
> Sure, I understand that just copying the file over isn't the right
> solution now. If I may suggest, I'd at least mention in comments the
> Synapse SVN revision to which the synchronization has been performed so
> that future re-sync efforts may be limited only to differences since the
> mentioned revision.

Now you are assuming that I know this version :-)

>
> What was your key for deciding which changes to include and which not? As
> an example, the OS/2 support mentioned above has apparently not been
> merged by you. I can obviously do that part myself, but I wonder if there
> is some other stuff which you decided not to include.

I merged what I needed. It was not a 'concerted effort'.

>
> Do I understand it correctly that you do not intend to provide the FPC
> extensions to Lukas Gebauer? I would probably try to do it myself in that
> case.

They are not so much extensions (although there are a couple, I assume), 
just some cases where things have been done differently.

Michael.